Does He Need an Entire Week Off to Dye Eggs?

While our soldiers - and coalition soldiers along with innocent Iraqi civilians - are getting hammered in Iraq this week and while Condi Rice prepares to sit down with the 9/11 panel tomorrow and lie through her perfect, oversized teeth, the president has taken the entire week off to spend at his Crawford ranch (you know, the one he bought as a prop just before Election 2000).

I can't remember the statistics, but Bush is either the president who has taken the most vacation time of any president, or any president in recent time. I mean, whenever his father went away during his presidency, you knew we were about to attack someone. His son learned, however, to have constant war so he can have constant vacation time.

And yes, I find it supremely creepy that Condi Rice proudly reports that she spends most of her weekends with the Bushes. Does George have her dress up in a French maid's costume? I mean... it just doesn't sound too normal.

I notice that even pro-war pundits like Barry McCaffrey and others on today seemed to not know quite what to say with Bush insisting we're being attacked just because "some Iraqis hate freedom and WE love freedom so that's why they attack us."

And why do I feel like I'm in that Peter Sellers movie where he plays the gardener who just says these odd, out of place things that everyone cheers as brilliant and well-considered?