George W Bush always talks about how, in time, historians will look back on his presidency and they will be the ones to decide. So far he’s got an awful lot of superlatives: most Americans killed by terrorists in a domestic attack, lowest approval rating, highest disapproval rating, worst economic downturn, among others.
Well now he can add another: laziest president of all time.
“Most vacation days taken by a sitting president,” Bee explained when Jon Stewart asked what record she meant. “People said that Reagan’s 436 would stand forever, but right now, as you can see, this president stands on 423, meaning his record should fall less than two weeks from today. And they said it shouldn’t be done.”
Bee continued playing up the great obstacles faced by Bush in his pursuit of the record and his dedication in overcoming them. “Reagan has a ranch in beautiful Santa Barbara,” she said. “Bush has spent his time chasing the record in Crawford, Texas, which by all objective accounts is a genuine scorched shithole. … And don’t forget, Bush is a war president. The 80’s? If Bush had been president then, he might not have come in at all.”
That’s over one-eighth of his presidency. I can’t really imagine any other profession getting away with taking a full eighth of their work year off.
Gotta hand it to him, though. If you’re going to be a bad president, you might as well go all out and be the worst president of all time.
