233 Days

Let's do a little quotation comparison, shall we?

First, here's Condoleeza Rice testifying yesterday, explaining the Administration's lack of action in preventing 9/11, as quoted in the New York Times:

"The restructuring of the F.B.I. was not going to be done in the 233 days in which we were in office," she said. Nor, she said, was the country about to make its aircraft cockpits more secure, or threaten to invade Afghanistan, or conduct any other kind of preemptive military strike in the name of counterterrorism.

Now (as TPM has noted) here are Dana Milbank and Robin Wright in tomorrow's Washington Post, discussing Bush's penchant for vacations:

This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.

Hmm. Notice any similarities? D'ya think that the Post just happened to slip that little "233" number in by chance? Now that's what I call a high quality smack right in Bush's petulant, lazy, responsibility-dodging face. Bravo Milbank and Wright!