Working Hard

President Bush talks a lot about "hard work" in his speeches. He must have used the expression almost as often as "freedom and democracy". So now he's on a 5 week vacation in Crawford. The average fortune 500 CEO takes 2.3 weeks of vacation per year. Our President has spent 25% of his presidency either at or on route to Crawford. Republicans will say he's still getting briefed, still answering calls. Big deal, I check my email on vacation and answer work related calls, most of us do.

Fact is this guy sucks, he's hopeless, he's done nothing for America. Now he's trying to hide in his ranch and work out how the hell to get rid of Cindy Sheehan, another thorn in his side. Meanwhile what happened to fixing this country? Where is the talk about social security, Medicare, education and poverty? What about that massive deficit and the inevitable real estate crash? While we've all focused on Iraq, banks have been lending money hand over fist and now the Fed seems to be intent on putting more pressure on over-streched consumers. Oil prices are out of control. Apparently Bush's Saudi buddies aren't towing the line and the promise of an abundance of Iraqi all has really materialized. All this is having a huge impact on the ability of average Americans to make ends meet.

So where is Bush? What's he doing about all this? Oh that's right, he's on his ranch, "working hard".