Did Romney fact flub attacking Obama?

The question has two answers, of course, one political and the other factual. GOP candidate Mitt Romney laid into President Obama for his prospective departure for Hawaii on Dec. 17 for a 17-day vacation. The vacation plans were splashed across The Drudge Report on Dec. 2. Here is a grab of the photo Drudge ran:

And the text accompanying:

THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE

Trip of the President

to

Honolulu, Hawaii

December 17th, 2011 to January 2nd, 2012

Trip Overview

On Saturday, December 17th, 2011, the President will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii. He will return to Washington, DC on Monday, January 2nd, 2012. ...

...no public events are scheduled during the trip. ...

This would seem to attribute the vacation information directly to the White House. That became the occasion for Romney's rip:

"I have to feel that this President has been a failure," the White House hopeful said during a tele-townhall Monday evening with potential Iowa voters.

"I just think it's time to have a President whose idea of being ‘hands on’ doesn't mean getting a better grip on the golf club," Romney zinged. ...

Obama, Romney argued, "told Congress that they need to stay in session and pass his tax breaks for the payroll tax and that they shouldn't leave for vacation until they did. And yet he's going off for 17 days and for golf in the sun."

But things are not always what they seem even on Drudge, according to ABC News.

Despite what Romney may be saying, a 17-day Hawaiian vacation for the Obama’s isn’t actually on the books. ...

Additionally, President Obama has said publicly that if Congress isn’t in recess by the Christmas holiday everyone — himself included — will be in Washington, D.C.

“We’re going to keep pushing Congress to make this happen. Now is not the time to slam the brakes on the recovery… Right now it’s time to step on the gas. We need to get this done. And I expect that it’s going to get done before Congress leaves. Otherwise, Congress may not be leaving, and we can all spend Christmas here together,” said Obama.

Now, it needs be noted that the president and his family vacationed in Hawaii over Christmastime last year and, I am pretty sure, the year before that. So ABC News' insistence that such a vay-cay this year "isn’t actually on the books" seems somewhat overstated.

So did Romney flub it with his rip? Not politically. The Dems will howl and deride, but they'd do that no matter what Romney said. As for Romney's supporters and the Republican base generally, they will think that even if Obama is not flying off for 17 days in Hawaii while issues go unresolved, it's exactly the sort of thing he would do.