Bush's 365 Days of Vacation

Just finishing up his 5th year of office, President George Bush has spent 365 days on vacation at his ranch in Texas. In my humble opinion, that is excessive! While our young men and women are dying in Iraq (2179 as of this moment), this president is using a chainsaw to clear woods and brush. Couldn't he put people to work to do that while he works on more urgent matters? Sure, the president needs some time off, but this is too much. No other president has accumulated such a high number of vacation days. Here is an excerpt from the Detroit News article:
...As much as it's a metaphor for presidential vigor, Bush's preoccupation with wielding his chainsaw has become fodder for bloggers and other critics who complain that he is isolated and disengaged.

“He shouldn't have time to be clearing brush,” said Kay Lucas, a grandmother and anti-war activist who drives 25 miles a day to care for the Crawford Peace House, a gathering spot for Cindy Sheehan and her protest against the war.

After press secretary Scott McClellan noted during a recent vacation that while Bush “always enjoys his time in Crawford, he's president 24/7,” the Washington blogger Wonkette weighed in with this jab: “Especially when consulting with that little-known Cabinet official, “Secretary of Clearing Brush.”

With still no exit strategy in Iraq, a raging federal deficit, upcoming Supreme Court nominee hearings, the NSA domestic spy scandal, the CIA leak scandal investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald, the delay in the rebuilding of the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, among a long laundry list of problems, the president has more serious work at hand than clearing brush.