1 Good to know the Commander in Chief is takin the GSAVE seriously: The president departed Tuesday for his longest stretch yet away from the White House, arriving at his Crawford ranch in the evening for a stretch of clearing brush, visiting with family and friends, and tending to some outside-the-Beltway politics. By historical standards, it is the longest presidential retreat in at least 36 years. The August getaway is Bush's 49th trip to his cherished ranch since taking office and the 319th day that Bush has spent, entirely or partially, in Crawford -- nearly 20 percent of his presidency to date, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio reporter known for keeping better records of the president's travel than the White House itself. Weekends and holidays at Camp David or at his parents' compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, bump up the proportion of Bush's time away from Washington even further.

2 "Weekends and holidays at Camp David or at his parents' compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, bump up the proportion of Bush's time away from Washington even further." Are the libs complaining, Max?

3 RIP Steven Vincent.

4 LetÂ’s all chip in and buy some land in Texas for Ted Kennedy. HMMMMMMÂ….. better make is a plot with no water, and nothing close to schools.

5 LGF seems to think Mooky's thugs killed him... why we let that bastard live is beyond me...

6 Yes, RIP. I don't mean this in a disrespectful way... In this WaTimes piece, he states that crooks and corruption are the problem in Basra, not terrorists... I would be very curious to know if his opinion would has changed in the afterlife. http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm

7 first off, Max makes it sound like that all Bush is doing at his ranch is having tons of fun cleaning away brush....ever hear of a working vacation Max, and who says the president cant take a trip to his ranch???....oh yea, like all those Democrats are ALWAYS in washington just waiting to get into session...yea, like remember all those trips Kerry took/takes instead of being around in Washington to cast his votes, gee seems he misses like 60-70% of those votes were he should be instead of running off to France to kiss up to Lance Armstrong.....second, how long before the MSM casts the blame for Vincents death on the military???

8 "There is an old saying in Tennessee-I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee-that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me-you can't get fooled again."

9 http://spencepublishing.typepad.com/in_the_red_zone/2005/08/steven_vincent__1.html#comments lefty's are having a field day defacing his blog with statements like 'rest in piss' and 'rest in pieces' they know no shame.

10 dave- unless you have super powers and can read if some one is a "liberal" by their handle, how can you say that the jack-ass who writes "rest in piss" is not some rethug? They seem to be the people with a major freaked out beef with the media. Those posters are 8765-wads not Dems or Repubs- just jerks. Thanos- your kidding right? Kerry is not our President, so that is a pointless arguement.

11 um got me there Brainiac! Could it be the fact when you click his nickname, it takes you to a website which spouts gun control rhetoric and anti Bush propaganda? BzZZT! we have a WINNER!

12 Dave- ya got me there- I couldn't be bothered to go up thread I was so disguted. Had read his op-ed and the read his obit today- re-inforced my sadness.

13 Some complain about President Bush not being at the White House. Dorks apparently don't know he has total communication. The same as if he were at the White House getting blow jobs like Clinton. Now I ask you. Would he answer the phone quicker at his ranch or would he answer quicker in the middle of a blow job? Maybe Clinton's lesbian wife would answer as she was probably watching as Monica performed.