We’re used to seeing the Administration clumsily torn apart by the liberals, but the Wall Street Journal blog has some of the cruelest comments about Bush that we’ve ever seen. Plus, they don’t bring up global warming or civil rights … just plain hatred.

Bush was interviewed by “Mrs. Moneypenny” or whoever over at CNBC. He was asked if he likes to get busy on the Internets. His reply:

Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see that. I forgot the name of the program, but you get the satellite and you can — like, I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes. Yeah, I do it some.

Sure, it’s retarded, but it’s fairly honest for Bush: I would like to be on that land I bought in 1999 when they said I had to be Texan. I kind of like to be very far away from here and this fucking job that I’m always fucking up. Just let me go home, Cheney, please ….

But the comments are savage. We’ll post some, after ye olde jump.

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• An Egyptian conspiracy-theory music video with cartoon representations of America and Israel is the depressing comic gold Ionesco warned us about. [Andrew Sullivan]
• Novelist Frederick Forsyth loves global terrorism, couldn’t pay mortgage without it. [Galleycat]
• Iraq party scene soon to explode, and not with bombs this time. [Mother Jones]
• Crawford, TX has a new fake ranch owner. [Star-Telegram]
• Fred Phelps has a son, and that son has a cute ass. [You Tube]

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* Bush pines for his Crawford crib. [HuffPo]
* Tell Congress exactly whose house America is. [PowerLine]
* Looking for a split-level in a good school district with minimal air raid attacks? Check out a liberal democracy. [Dean's World]
* Move to Massachusetts and break your legs. Don’t cost nothin’. [Q and O]
* Or stay home; can you really afford not to? [Boi From Troy]

Bush has been called for jury duty in Crawford, Texas — though (as with some wars we could mention) it seems unlikely that he will serve. Says 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother, a Republican who has a grandson serving in the Army in Iraq, “I don’t think I’ll be sending the sheriff out to bring the president in.” Oh, but wouldn’t be AWESOME if he did? And, hey, if not may his grandson can take his place in the court instead of at war — for a change. MORE »

In Crawford last week:

• Washington Whispers: Jenna Bush speaks Spanish while teaching at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in the Mount Pleasant area. . . Joe Biden tried “serving” to Angelina Jolie. . . John Kerry may motorbike with Richard Branson. . . Kathleen Willey Schwicker to release book attacking Hillary. [USN&WR]
• Cindy Adams: Judith Miller celebrated her release at the Americana Hotel in Sag Harbor. [NYP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Crawford resident complains about Bush to Vanity Fair. [NYDN]

In this White House pool report, Peter Baker tries to get WH spokesbot Scott McClellan to comment on the President’s vacations or lack thereof:

Asked if POTUS needs a vacation after this vacation, Scott said, “This is not what you would call a vacation. This is the president’s home. He always enjoys coming here. But when you’re president, you’re president 24/7.”

Ah, yes, especially when consulting with that little-known cabinet official, “Secretary of Clearing Brush.”

Full report after the jump.

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Wonkette’s secret service operative sends us this pic of a Crawford Sheriff’s Department vehicle:

Dan Froomkin of the “White House Briefing” gets up on his high horse about Bush’s off-the-record barbecue with the WH press corps, but this time he has company: “And later, a small handful watched askance as the rest fawned over Bush, following him around in packs every time he moved.” How big do you think that “small handful” got by the time the press vans got back to the hotel? We wouldn’t be surprised if Froomkin’s scolding has the cranky Crawford corps in a snit, though we’d argue that there’s nothing wrong in and of itself with sucking up to someone to get a story. It’s the stabbing in the back afterward that we miss. MORE »

Just to keep a minimal level of decorum, Wonkette would like to offer a Guide to Ineffectual Protesting, the non-partisan edition. Whether you want to kick some rag-head ass or abolish the Zionist neo-con cabal, we think you’ll find these suggestions make for less ridiculousness all around. MORE »

An operative on the scene sends us this: