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The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Fri Nov 25, 2005 at 11:38:44 PM EST
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President Bush made telephone calls to the families of 10 soldiers on Thanksgiving. Congressman Jack Murtha has visited the wounded at Walter Reed almost every week since the beginning of the Iraq War.

The President is on another vacation in Crawford, using Thanksgiving as a cover. While most Americans were able to get off work Thursday, and some were lucky enough to get both Thursday and Friday off, I bet not many got off from Tuesday through Sunday, the period Bush is spending at the ranch.

I'm no math whiz, so clue me in. Between his trips to Latin America, Asia and the Ranch this month, how many days has he spent working for us in Washington?

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    The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha | 17 comments (17 topical)
    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#1)
    by BigTex on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:26 PM EST
    Between his trips to Latin America, Asia and the Ranch this month, how many days has he spent working for us in Washington?
    That's an unfair criticism TL. The trips to Latin America and Asia were working for us.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#2)
    by kipling on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:26 PM EST
    Even when he's IN Washington, the idea that he might be working for "us", i.e. the common good, is, frankly, wishful thinking.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#3)
    by Wes on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:26 PM EST
    Bush broke the vacation record with 3 1/2 years to go...

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#4)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    The idea that a modern day President - any one of them'em - can take a vacation makes me grin. The guy with the "football" is always near, a communications center that contact anyone anyplace anytine is available in moments. In the meantime the press is just off to the right, claws shapened...If you like, think presidenting in your pajamas... Think working from home with your land phone, cell phone, fax and email all ready for your instant use...and your five year old screaming for attention.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#5)
    by Repack Rider on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    The guy with the "football" is always near, a communications center that contact anyone anyplace anytine is available in moments. As long as he doesn't interrupt the president when he's reading about a pet goat or riding his bike, with news of, say, a terrorist attack on the United States or an emergency evacuation of the president's family from the White House. I agree that the communications are available if you will agree that the message does not always seem to get through. What is the excuse for the president either ignoring emergencies or not even being told about them?

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Between his trips to Latin America, Asia and the Ranch this month, when does his train leave town permanently? There, that's a more interesting word problem.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Also, had I been the screenwriter, I would have made Murtha more Churchillian as follows: It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion becomes It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion imagined by the incompetent

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#8)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    J, Maybe it should say executed by the incompetent.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#9)
    by theologicus on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Yes, but as you yourself have noted, this is really the Cheney administration.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#10)
    by Slado on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    This whole post is comical. The idea that any president Bush or not is on vacation when they are on vacation is silly. The only thing the president can't do in Washington when he's in Crawford is talk personaly with staff and congresman. And that he probably does via confrence calls. Can't you guys find legitimate reasons to go after the president rather then this silly post?

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Che, I was trying to avoid "executed" and "implemented" as that might ambiguously be thought to refer to the troops themselves.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Slado: It makes us feel smugishly superior than most other people.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Wile:
    It makes us feel smugishly superior than most other people.
    How do I point out that 'smugishly' is not actually a word (you mean 'smugly'), and 'superior' takes the preposition 'to' (not 'than'), without you feeling that I am smugly claiming to be superior to you?

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#15)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:27 PM EST
    Why complain about him slacking? The less he gets done, the better.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#16)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:28 PM EST
    Cymro - Smugishly may not be a word, but it certainly describes the situation.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#17)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:28 PM EST
    Jim -- so incorrect or not, it's still right, eh? Sure sounds like your style of thinking. Next you'll be arguing that 'the ends justify the means'.

    Re: The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:28 PM EST
    PPJ, go see your headshrinker, the meds are suppose to help you with the continuous grinning and inappropriate giggling, along with your memory loss about the budgets proposed and passed under St Ronnie the Senile.

    The Difference Between Bush and Jack Murtha | 17 comments (17 topical)