One of my favorite writers is Willis Eschenbach - I first became aware of him over at Anthony's but he recently started up his own blog and I have been following it with some interest. One day ago, he posted this about President Trump's work schedule:
The Scariest Number Isn’t Hours Spent Golfing
In Alaska, the summers are short. If you want to get anything done during those few months you need to work long hours. When I was a younger man, in Alaska sometimes on a job we’d work what’s called “six-tens”. This meant six ten-hour days per week, for a total of sixty hours. It was long, sometimes exhausting labor, but heck, I was a young man suffering from chronic testosterone poisoning. That meant I either didn’t mind the long hours … or I damn well wasn’t going to let my workmates know the times when I did mind the long hours. It was just part of the life we led—suck it up, buttercup.
I was reminded of this when I saw the Washington Post article full of what they seem to think are some scary numbers.
The WaPo article pointed out, for example, that in his first month President Trump spent twenty-five hours golfing. But they didn’t mention the scariest number, maybe they didn’t notice it.
Many media articles thought it was frightening that he spent more time playing golf than on his intelligence briefings. There was much angst expressed by the talking heads on this accord. But none of those articles said one word about the scariest number.
This story was picked up and regurgitated by several other media sources (including Hillary Clinton) and Willis talks about them. Willis then talks about the scariest number:
The scariest number, the number that should be setting the Democrats hair on fire but isn’t, is the following:
Over the first month of his Presidency, Donald Trump worked an average of 64 hours per week … I thought we were electing a carrot-topped President Geezer, and instead we got freakin’ President T. Energizer Bunny! He’s my age, seventy, and that joker is working six tens plus an extra half day each week on putting his agenda into practice, and he still fits in six hours a week of golf?
Dang, dawg, go for it!
Kinda puts Hillary’s whining about golf in a different light, huh?
Gotta say, folks … if a man is working sixty-four hours a week on getting the job done, on my planet he can golf as much as he damn well pleases. This is doubly true considering that part of the six hours per week was when he was golfing with the Prime Minister of Japan. Although I didn’t count it in his work hours, that is assuredly a part of his job, and a very important one. Discussions on a golf course are often very productive for reasons of framing that I detailed here under the heading “Never discuss your relationship with someone unless you’re walking with them.”
If I were a Democrat, 64 is the number that would be causing me to lose sleep. When most Democrats are just arriving at work, the President has already put in an hour or two implementing his agenda and undermining the Democratic agenda.
No wonder there is so much push-back from the regressive left. No wonder they are flummoxed. I love it!
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