"One would begin to suspect that the Angry Left and Liberal Legacy Media (largely overlapping groups) are simply going to criticize Bush when he does X as well as when he does not-X."

Yeah. And one would begin to suspect that water is wet, fire is hot, and needles are sharp.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

If you remember last year the press was all over him like stink on poop when he *did* go to Florida after the hurricanes.

As long as there have been college diplomas, degrees in Journalism have always included on the reverse, a fine-print warning: "Caution: The issuance of this diploma only certifies that the holder was recorded in attendance for the required class sessions, and is not intended to imply that the diplomate is capable of logical, rational, or responsible research, inquiry, composition, grammar, or conversation."

I was always counseled by other students and even faculty advisors, that if I found myself unable to cope with the rigors of hard science, math, philosophy, history, geography, English, or Art... there was always the Journalism major as a last resort.

Steve at hog on ice has, I believe, the perfect summary of W's no-win situation.

http://www.littletinylies.com/
I refer to the "bush is satan" post. a sample:

If George Bush crapped gold bars and handed one to every single hurricane victim, and then he raised the dead and parted the flood waters and turned the power back on and resurrected the Beatles and got them back together and lowered the price of oil to two cents per barrel and invented a cure for cancer while farting Chopin nocturnes and turning the oceans into chilled Dom Perignon and the beaches into caviar, liberals would STILL find reason to bitch

My neighbor was bitching about Bush being on vacation and returning from "whereever he went."

I told him, you mean his house? He went to his home. That's where he was. He went there to chop wood because that's what guys like to do-- unless they're pussy liberals.

He went there to chop wood and govern the country, because as Steve points out in the post vivi linked to, the president of the United States does not take "vacations." That's why every time a president "takes a vacation" they call wherever he goes things like the (Something) White House. He takes a staff with him. Clinton would do it from Camp David. Nixon had a place down in Miami he'd do his "vacation" governing from. Bush does it from Crawford.

Andrea's absolutely right. When these panty-sniffer journalists take vacations, I doubt they even answer their cell phones, let alone do anything work related. The President gets intelligence briefings every day in Crawford, is in the loop for every major decision involving his office, and is ready to leave at a moments notice. That's hardly a two week romp in Thailand. The libs know this, but that hardly matters. Every single fucking thing is a chance at a partisan shot now, even a horrible national tragedy.

More bull kaka from the notorius Communist News Network and its mob of hoods where their top dog Big Bad Wold Blitzer?

This is standard strategy in use on any and all issues. See Domestic Politics