You know a story has legs when the comedians get hold of it and won't let go. Andy Borowitz certainly hasn't missed the story.
President George W. Bush said today that he understands and respects
the views of those who are calling for him to cut short his summer
vacation, but warned that an immediate withdrawal from Crawford, Texas
would "send a terrible signal to the enemy."
"The enemy would like nothing better than to see me cut short my
vacation and get back to the White House," Mr. Bush told reporters.
"They hate my freedom."
While the president said that he would withdraw from Crawford
"soon," he refused to set a timetable for his departure from the ranch,
saying that much work there still needs to be done.
Mr. Bush, who has been spending much of his vacation clearing
brush, said that he is making great progress in training ranch hands to
take over that job for him, but cautioned that they are not yet
prepared to do the job themselves.
"Once the ranch hands have shown that they are able to clear the
brush on their own, I will withdraw from Crawford, but that day has not
yet come," the president said.
I have been waiting for Billmon to write about Cindy. Here is the link
But, instead of feasting on Hanoi Jane, the
wing nuts are driving themselves nuts trying to figure out how to take
down Vacaville Cindy: a woman who looks and sounds like she spends her
free time organizing church socials and helping her husband clean out
the garage -- that is, when she isn't busy searing George W. Bush's
butt with a white hot poker for dragging the country into an
unnecessary and failed war in Iraq
The bad guys hang
at the Crawford Peace House, a dump of a house that looks like Hippie
Central with dozens of cars, vans, SUVs and campers parked on the
grass. Add portable toilets for ambience and you get the picture. This
is the staging center for protests at the ranch nine miles up Prairie
Chapel Road.
The good guys fill
with gas and diesel and dine on cheeseburgers at the Coffee Station
where the walls are adorned with enlarged snapshots of President Bush
working the crowd and dining on a Coffee Station burger. That won’t
happen this year, and perhaps never again because of the bad guys.
I would be happy if someone could offer me proof that the Powerline
post is a "gag" to bait those of us who feel no sorrow at the prospect
that W might never again be seen working the crowd or dining on a
cheese burger at the Coffee Station. I may not agree with all that
Cindy Sheehan has to say, but she has the right to express her views.
It baffles me how someone on one hand can attack Mrs. Sheehan for
traveling to Crawford to make a point to the president, while on the
other implying admiration for Republicans who traveled to Crawford to give
the president a message of their own. This cannot be taken seriously. A
"pilgrimage" to the ranch of Dubya Bush? I mean really...
And George Bush is getting the worst of it at Unconfirmed Sources, where 
