WP: Storm and Bush On the Move

[kskiska]

Chief Executive Refashions His Readiness Posture for Rita

AUSTIN, Sept. 24 -- President Bush was not going to get caught off guard by Hurricane Rita this weekend.

The president who refused to cut short a working vacation three weeks ago to prepare for the fury of Hurricane Katrina was sitting at the U.S. Northern Command post in Colorado on Saturday morning monitoring what had become a more timid storm.

"I've come here," Bush explained, "to watch NORTHCOM in action, to see firsthand the capacity of our military to plan, organize and move equipment to help the people in the affected areas."

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Bush's posture toward Rita contrasts sharply with the days after Katrina. Then, Bush was preoccupied with Medicare, the Iraq war and getting back to his Crawford, Tex., ranch to finish up a month-long hiatus from the White House. He was seen strumming a guitar at an event in California as New Orleans was filling up with water flowing through breached levees.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401538.html

[Lindacooks]

1. 'Posture' is right.

All the chimp ever does is pose for pictures.

[kskiska]

3. He didn't get the picture he wanted

(snip)

When Rita was approaching, the storm appeared to be packing the same fury as Katrina. The White House communications team scrambled to find an appropriate setting for Bush to monitor preparations for the next great storm, initially settling on San Antonio, where search-and-rescue teams were stationed in anticipation of Rita.

But the plan hit a glitch -- the search-and-rescue team needed to get closer to a storm whose path was shifting to the north and east and could not wait for a photo-op with the president. As a result, shortly after Bush had said his stop would not be an inconvenience to preparations, he was forced to scrub the event.

[RamboLiberal]

5. One WH Aide admitted to the NY Times it was too sunny

for the photo-op in San Antonio. No shit!

[truthisfreedom]

6. the real reason rove scrapped the shoot was that the weather was sunny

and it would have looked completely inappropriate to pretend he was overseeing preparations on a beautiful sunny day.

[VegasWolf]

2. Wonder which one will cause the most destruction? nt

[rodeodance]

4. real sad when the main goal of JR?WH is the ideal photo op while people

are diplaced and homes flooded, etc etc.

[Chi-Town Exile]

7. His Presidency Has Been One Sustained Photo OP

The MSM still can't get that through their collectively thick heads.

[lakeguy]

8. what's this "working vacation" bull*hit?

what the hell was he working on if he wasn't working on katrina? couple of stiff most likely...

[jayctravis]

9. When trouble strikes, does he just throw a dart at a map?

"Ahm goin' thar!"