White House Letter: Things are heating up back at the Texas ranch

[katinmn]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/07/news/letter.php

Says Joe Hagin, deputy WH chief of staff, is ensconced in a double-wide trailer across from the ranch and his forced rotation includes chainsaw time with * LOL. Little did he expect he would have to meet with Cindy Sheehan yesterday.

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2005
White House Letter: Things are heating up back at the Texas ranch
Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush left for his summer vacation last week, and so did a lot of the White House senior staff. Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, headed for his house in the Florida Panhandle. Andrew Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, was with his family in Poland Spring, Maine.

Nicolle Devenish, the White House communications director, had plans to leave late in the month for her September wedding on the Greek island of Mykonos. Another White House staff member was cruising travel Web sites last week for cheap airfares to Brazil.

Bush, of course, was in the less exotic blast furnace of his Texas ranch, settling in for a five-week stay on the prairie that will be his longest time away from Washington as president.

Bush cut short his time at the ranch last summer because of his re-election campaign. His full August idyll is not only the length of a classic French vacation but also grist for the Democrats, who have accused the president of fleeing Washington to escape the federal investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA officer to reporters, a potential crime.

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[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. Rove has a house in the Florida panhandle? anybody know where?

He could have guests too!

[katinmn]

2. That was my thought, too.

:evilgrin:

Maybe we can get pics of him frolicking with his mistress.

[susu369]

3. That caught my interest as well - Rove has house in Panhandle

DU can usually give an answer quickly.

[GoBlue]

5. For 7.95 you can find out where.

http://find.intelius.com/search-name.php?ReportType=1&

Enter Karl, Rove, Florida, and in comes up with one address listing last reported on 3/21/2005

[QC]

7. I was wondering about that as well,

since I also live in the Panhandle, though no doubt in much more modest circumstances than Bush's Brain.

I would bet he's somewhere around Grayton Beach or Destin--that's where the big money tends to hang out.

[GoBlue]

4. "Another White House staff member was cruising travel Web sites ...

...last week for cheap airfares to Brazil." The one smart one?

[Journeyman]

6. Brazil doesn't have extradition treaties with the US?. . .

very smart one. . .

[ixion]

8. my, my, my... all these 'civil servants' have very extravgant lifestyles

I'm glad they can live so well off our tax dollars. :sarcasm: :grr: