Wolfe, for a hundred different posts or more, I've meant to tell you, to help you, a problem you have, the 'moderate fallacy'.
*Everything* for you has to have a left and right you're between. If the Dems were for giving babies milk, and Republicans were for giving them mercury to drink, you would not be able to say that 'Dems are right'. It would *have* to be some form of both are two extremes and both wrong and you are right between them somewhere.
Hopefully, you can consider the message.
In this case, ya, Dems did that - but if what I saw is correct, he also *set records on the amount of vacation taken*, a relevant fact you did not mention (or know presumably).
Whenever I see your posts, that have many good qualities, I look for the 'left and right are both wrong' framing you do the way fish swim in water. It's generally there, it seems.
Your larger point is right, both parties regularly complain about the other party's President's vacation. Your moderate fallacy at Dems under Bush is not.
The Dems might be right, the Repubs might be right, both might be right, both might be wrong, one might be more but not completely right - it's not always the moderate mantra.