WTF Is It Now?!?

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The Washington comPost's Mike Allen seems a bit cranky:

"President Bush will hit the road for 14 straight days before the Nov. 5 elections, stopping in as many as four states a day during a taxpayer-subsidized campaign spree that appears unconstrained by preparations for war."

And from the same article, we learn that in these dark days before we bomb the bejeezus out of another country, Bunnypants will be hopping about this one and throwing a party at his pseudo-ranch, the Lazy W, for Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Maybe they'll dress up in Roy Rogers suits.

Chimpy's nannies say that in the coming weeks many of the AWOL Wonderchimp's stops will consist of rallies designed to draw favorable local news media attention to republican candidates. I don't know about you, but when I hear "rallies" the first thing I picture is the one in Nuremberg.

White House officials say taxpayers will be stuck with the costs, on the theory "that Bush is the president wherever he goes" (gawd), though repub state parties and campaigns will reimburse a portion of the cost, including hall rental and hotel rooms for staff. No mention on who pays for the backdrops, however. Some Dems are a bit peeved that the Golfing Goobhead always seems to combine his political rallies with an official event, to defray even more of the party's cost and to stick it to the taxpayers.

Democratic officials said they will try to make an issue of the Fratboy F*ckup's taxpayer-subsidized travel in districts and states where he stops. Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev) wrote to budget director Mitch Daniels on Sept. 26 to ask for an accounting of the government cost of Bush's political trips. As of yesterday, the White House had not responded.

Reid's letter began by noting Bush's commitment to restraining the federal budget. "Spending taxpayer money on political campaigning and fund-raising is the type of frivolous spending I thought President Bush vowed to curb," he wrote. "During a time of war and deepening recession, are these appropriate expenditures to American taxpayers?"

A White House aide would not comment on the letter beyond saying, "We're reviewing it."

Yeah. Like Dick Cheney's energy task force files.