Originally Posted by Kulturkampf

Did you see the aging that occurred on him while being President?

Originally Posted by Blasted Child

Let's be thankful Bush didn't spend more time in his office making decisions

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

Carter - 79 days in 1 full term
Reagan - 335 days in 2 full terms
Bush I - 543 days in 1 full term
Clinton - 152 days in 2 full terms
Bush II - 418 days as of 8/7/2007 (532 days left in office)

Actually, Dubya doesn't hold a candle to his dad. However, he does make Ronald Reagan look like a workoholic.

Reference: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...sing_in_Action

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

[Dubya] has taken the most vacation days of any sitting president.

Originally Posted by Kulturkampf

So Pres.l Bush is wrong for continuing to the very end?

Liberals reward the lazy with welfare... I guess they do no tsee hard work as a virtue.

Originally Posted by Kulturkampf

So Pres.l Bush is wrong for continuing to the very end?

Liberals reward the lazy with welfare... I guess they do no tsee hard work as a virtue.

Originally Posted by pac-man

Oh, and George W. knows all about hard work.

Originally Posted by ZeldaQueen

Exactly!

Edit: It's not that I think that Obama's the end-all savior of our country. I know he's bound to have screw-ups too. But we've had Bush screwing up for the past eight years and I just am so tired of it I at least want someone else screwing up now.

Originally Posted by Tadao

Yes, Obama is the light at the end of our tunnel and will not fail us or do us wrong.

Originally Posted by Tadao

Yes, Obama is the light at the end of our tunnel and will not fail us or do us wrong.

Originally Posted by Yahoo

In what has become a kind of presidential right-of-passage, the president (or really, the federal agencies that answer to him) has been pushing through a series of last-minute regulations that have the force of law. Everything from pollution controls to family-leave standards can be set by these rules.....These de-facto laws are called "midnight rules" or "midnight regulations" because they happen at the end -- or midnight period -- of an administration. If the rules are published in the Federal Register by Friday, Nov. 21, they'll be very hard for President-elect Obama to reverse when he gets into office.

And that's the point. Sure, the administration had eight years to get a lot of this stuff accomplished. But according to senior research fellow at George Mason University, Veronique de Rugy, most midnight regulations "cater to special interests" and "that is why they are hurried into effect without the usual checks and balances."


...In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.