As Americans continues to wake up from their slumber, support for military action in Iraq continues to slip while protest and dissent continue to grow. As more and more people continue to question our military presence in a country where we clearly do not belong, the President insists that we need to stay. As our country grows restless, our President stays the course on his 30-day vacation.

An American Research Group study finds the President’s job approval at just 36%. Even fewer - a mere 33% - approve of his handling of the economy, with only 29% saying the national economy is getting better. At this point as President, Reagan had a 60% approval, Clinton had a 59% approval, and Richard Nixon had a 39% approval even in the midst of Watergate! That’s bad news for Dubya.

I wonder if this has any relation to the fact that Bush’s vacation days in Crawford alone are totalling over 325 days. After all, this isn’t a hard number to understand. There are 365 days in a year, so that means that in his 5 years as President of the United States, George Bush has spent almost one year at the Crawford ranch. By way of comparison, I’m lucky if I get 2 weeks of vacation each year, so in the same 5 years I’ve had less than 70 — in reality, probably closer to 50 — days of vacation. I’m sure there are a LOT of Americans who haven’t been as lucky as me, and who probably get pretty pissed off when they think about the guy who says “not on my watch” taking so much time off from his post.