THE GOVERNMENT WHICH GOVERNS BEST…
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James Joyner | Monday, August 4, 2003 |
Tom Burka calculates that President Bush has actually spent negative time governing, once once subtracts time spent engaged in other activities:
Dr. Rab Scallion of the Geneva Institute For Time Management said, “If you add up all the time Bush has taken vacation, worked out, napped, rested, slept, eaten, run, swam, golfed, relaxed, snacked, watched football, choked on pretzels, nicknamed members of the press corps, and smirked, it adds up to more than the time he’s actually been President. He’s somehow spent less than no time working in the White House. It comes out to minus two months, give or take three hours.”
To which I say: FOUR MORE YEARS!
(Hat tip: John Constantine)
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Now if we could just get the legislators on the same schedule...
I understand Dick Gephardt has come pretty close.
Why would I think that Jimmy "the peanut" Carter never slept a wink during his term?
Or Lyndon Johnson personally selecting and approving bombing target in North Vietnam. Micromanagement isn't the same thing as good mangagement.
Amen! How 'bout proposing a one-year moratorium on any new laws and regulations. You would think that after 200+ years we would have written all the laws and regulations that we need.
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