A Vacation for Lame Duck and Lame Dick

It has been a tough few months for the White House. Being criticized for the numerous scandals, and watching so many political allies and supporters indicted (or shot) must take an tremendous amount of energy. Top that off with an approval rating that, if you exclude members of the Bush clan and people working in the Oil industry, must barely enter into double digits and I think everyone would agree that the President and VP could use a good break. I know that the president gets a lot of criticism for taking more vacation time than any other president in recent memory, but what other president has tried to spread democracy to the Middle East. Hey, this is a part of the world where a cartoon can cause weeks of riots and death. It's hard to imagine that the foundations of democracy, like Freedom of Speech for example, are going to be received there with cheering and flowers the way our troops were in Iraq. If Bush is going to democratize the world in his last three years, he is going to need all the rest he can get. He is, after all, a lame duck.
Cheney will also need to be well rested because his credibility is pretty battered after almost offing his friend and Republican money guy. If he is going to regain any credibility, even if only with his own party, it is going to take a lot of energy. He is, you might say, a lame Dick.
Although it is hard to imagine any legislators but those in the reddest of red states wanting these two around before the mid-term election, they may need to be in campaign mode over the next few months. They should be refreshed and ready to go just in case.
I don't think that pulling weeds on his ranch or riding his bicycle past hordes of protesters is really going to do it for the president. He needs to go some place where he can work off some aggression. What is better for working out aggression than shooting things? I think it would be a great idea if he went hunting with the vice president. Yeah, that could be the best thing for him and for the American people. Hey Dick, since I’d like to do my part for the American people, if you take the president hunting the drinks are on me.