And those free vacations?
Spiritual healers, aging actresses, agents, Hollywood liberals and vacationing conservatives, self-righteous vegetarians and self-indugent slackers, three generations, all with time on their hands, sex on their brains and stories to tell how could this fail to be, at the very least, wickedly entertaining?
Go!" Dickens camp is part academic conference, part book club, part vacation, and part liberal-arts boot camp.
Liberals in Congress have proposed vacation mandates in the past without any success.
Last week Air America Radio, the liberal chat network, announced it would be sponsoring its first vacation cruise.
He and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguably the most liberal justice on the court, celebrated holidays together, went on vacation in France and rode an elephant in India.
The Mittster had barely gotten out of bed on Monday morning, following a weeklong vacation at his lakefront mansion in New Hampshire, before the liberal attack dogs began snapping at his well-tanned ankles.
For eight nights beginning just before the Fourth of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the vacationing Keith Olbermann.
But the 21-day "prayer offensive" for an almighty purging of court "liberals" (sic) is winding down with the court intact and on a well-earned vacation.
The leader of Russia's liberal Union of Right Forces Party, Boris Y . Nemtsov said in a statement today that Mr. Putin, "as commander in chief" has "no right to vacation while his subordinates, Northern Fleet sailors, face this drama".
The Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization, posted this headline on its Web site in 2006: "Careless in Crawford: Catastrophes Gather While Bush Vacations".
