Via WDSU TV: Bush to return to DC

[MADem]

The newsreader on WDSU, which is doing round the clock NO hurricane coverage, just announced that chimp is cutting his vacation short, leaving San Diego, and returning to DC. His decision, apparently, was taken as a consequence of the devastation in NOLA.

No link, was a TV broadcast, will find one and post it asap.

Edit, link: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts.

[ramapo]

1. Wow, he finally gets it

Nice to know he'll be "in charge" now. What a sacrifice he's making, cutting his vacation from his vacation short and all...

[KeepItReal]

5. No he doesn't get it. HE IS LEAVING FOR DC *TOMORROW*

WTF is so important that he cannot point Air Force One East?

He could be in DC in what 5 hours?

[Tyranny_R_US]

17. So he is staying 2 days the media is just trying to water it down.

[KeepItReal]

24. Seems like it

Don't rush back to D.C. on our account.

:-(

[calimary]

26. No. Since he's been willing to travel around to Arizona and other

places to make speeches, no, he DOESN'T get it. He's got plenty of time for his own damned, blasted PR campaigns, but precious little when it comes to caring for the other guy. Gee, that's mighty big of him, 'eh? Throw a crumb to the peons. Compassionate conservatism my ass. Did you see how they billed Will Pitt's article in Truthout - talking about the guy who takes more vacation time than a French aristocrat?

William Rivers Pitt | Here's the Funny Part
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005I.shtml
George W. Bush coughed up his latest rationale for continuing the Iraq war - I think this is the fourth or fifth one of these to this point - by saying that because so many American soldiers have been killed, we have to keep sending American soldiers to get killed as a means of honoring the American soldiers who have been killed. William Rivers Pitt says this is big talk from a guy who spends more time on vacation than a French aristocrat.


Perhaps the First Dog-Dropper is waiting til tomorrow so his faithful can find him a donkey to ride in on, and lots of palm fronds to wave in the air as they shout their "hosannas."

DISGRACEFUL.

[Eloriel]

Got a link for the newsreader? n/t

[MADem]

7. Not yet, it goes by on the TV crawl, and they are talking about it now

The federal gov't aid angle, is what I mean by 'it.'

I'm still searching for a print link, but I thought that the chimp cutting his vacation by more than half a week merited the announcement without one!

[MADem]

9. WDSU just got knocked off the air (with a link to initial report, above)

They weren't even broadcasting from their regular studio...man, it must be a total mess over there...

WWL is working, though: http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

One more edit to add a link: 11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts. http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

[SpiralHawk]

13. "...to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts."

This really means that they have a better TV at the White House

[MADem]

18. And we know chump does not know how to use them internets

...to get the streaming newscasts.

I switched to WWL -- they are doing a fine job, BTW. http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

[leftchick]

19. I think it is just 2 days

wasn't he going back to DC on Thursday?

[MADem]

21. The newsreader may have been mistaken, but I thought she said

he was scheduled to return to DC at the weekend.

[maddezmom]

23. Reuter says 2 days earlier

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, on a month-long vacation at his Texas ranch, will return to Washington on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned, to help oversee recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina, the White House said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050830/pl_nm/weather_katrina_bush_dc

What a great sacrifice for his nation.:sarcasm:

He should fly to Crawford, meet with Cindy...then do a helo tour of the states effected by the Hurricane. But he'll just go the the WH and watch it all on his big screen tv. Wonder how many pretzels he'll throw down this week.

[CottonBear]

2. WDSU link: The real news about NOLA,MS and AL:

http://www.wdsu.com/video/4909353/detail.html#

[VADem11]

3. Hallelujah!

Our brave and mighty president is sacrificing his well earned and precious vacation. He will surely solve all of our problems. Thank you President Bush!

:sarcasm:
He couldn't even come back yesterday? What an ass.

[ima_sinnic]

4. whatever. he can be useless in DC as easily as in Crawford (n/t)

[Mari333]

6. looks like hes been told its photo op time

as if his returning to DC means anything else. Pfft. POS.

[johnfunk]

8. Poor Smirky, his French vacation was ruined!

"The nerve of that bitch Katrina, killin' all those nice red staters. Is that Katrina a tairist, Unka Karl?"

[Retrograde]

28. don't worry - long weekend coming up

so he can rest up at Camp David from all this hard prezidentin' stuff.

Or maybe the White House renovations got finished early...

[slay]

10. Perfectly fine to vacation while our troops are dying in Iraqs devastation

though. What an idiotic, uncaring, incompetent poopy head he is.

[flordehinojos]

11. * is probably mad as hell. vacation is minus two days, sheehan is parked

in the gate (or close to it) to his prairie home chapel ... the damn hurricane is inconveniencing his blah-blah-blah speeches ... when * gets angry we had all better watch out!

[iowa_democrat]

12. Wow, this must be really important...

The last thing to cause b*sh to cut short a vacation and return to DC was Teri Schivo.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. He's not equipped to run things from Crawford?

Now there's a change of direction. :rofl:

When he went to the Bush Estate, WH spinners were telling us that he can do the same things in Crawford as in Washington because it is fully equipped! Now it isn't?

[MADem]

20. He is killing two birds with one flight to DC

He is running away from Cindy without appearing to do so, and

He is "appearing concerned."

It's all bullshit, his stock in trade!

[Norquist Nemesis]

22. More like flipping the bird

at Cindy as he flies back to DC. He probably couldn't get out of Crawford fast enough and thinks Katrina is a gift from God to him. Let's him show his leeeaaaadership all over again. (Bush laugh: heh heh heh)

[maddezmom]

15. hope he plugs his phone in this time n/t

[meganmonkey]

16. He must have met his fundraising goal

:puke:

[David Zephyr]

25. He's Fleeing the HERicane in Crawford...The Cindy Sheehan HERicane!

Everyone knows good and damned well why the Coward of the County is fleeing Crawford...Hericane Sheehan with its relentless tidal waves and pounding winds of questioning AWOL Bush's failed Iraqi War policies.

[DLnyc]

27. like 9/11, they wil focus on managing the images.

After 9/11 in NYC, 'authorities' went to amazing lengths to manage the images. Fences 20 feet high covered with tarps were erected on all streets so that no-one could see ground zero. Lots of police and army (?guard?) prevented anyone from even getting south of 14th Street for weeks. Media images never really documented the horrifying extent of the devastation. Only a few (vetted?) images were shown of the actual wreckage.

My guess is bushit is wandering back to DC to attend meetings focused on managing the images, as well as setting up blockades to prevent access. Sounds cynical, but comes from experience.

Maybe one of these days Americans will begin to demand actual performance from their institutions, instead of image management.

[nobushfan]

29. Well, he's not exactly rushing back to D.C.

He has time to strum the gitar and spend one more night in Crawford before he goes back to D.C. Overseein' FEMA is hard work...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/480/capm10108301730

[lateo]

30. Just like 9/11....

Bush took his sweet time getting back to DC then too.

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

31. Fill me in, this wasn't deemed newsworthy hours ago?

Sorry for the change of subject but I am confused.

I put this out hours ago and the moderator decided it didn't belong as a breaking news item and it was moved to discussion. Why is it now a breaking news story?

(I read the rules for posting breaking news and I don't think I violated them. It was a TV news report of "this just in" on MSNBC)