NYT/AP: Bush, Schwarzenegger to Meet

[DeepModem Mom]

AP NewsBreak: Bush, Schwarzenegger to Meet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 18, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- They've found reason to avoid each other in recent months, but President Bush is scheduled to meet Friday afternoon with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, officials with both administrations said.

It won't be a long session -- just enough time for the governor to press his fellow Republican on such vital California issues as the state's fragile levee system and immigration, aides in both camps said Tuesday.

Schwarzenegger will meet Bush at the airport in San Jose, then ride in the president's limousine for a joint appearance at Cisco Systems.

Bush will pitch the American Competitiveness Initiative, which, if approved by Congress, would double government funding for basic research in the physical sciences, train thousands of new science and math teachers and extend a popular tax credit businesses can receive for investing in research and development.

Bush then will head to Napa County for what his aides describe as ''down time.'' The president will visit West Sacramento, near the Capitol, on Saturday....White House and Schwarzenegger administration officials said they did not expect Bush to bring an answer to the governor's February request for an unusual federal disaster declaration for the California levees....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Bush-Schwarzenegger.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Great. Each one can drag the other's poll numbers further down.

I hope they get together every week.

[NEOBuckeye]

5. My sentiments exactly n/t

[Patchuli]

14. I heard that Ahnie asked * not to 'help' him

before we kicked his butt last November in his 'special election!' As if even * was reason enough for us to not vote in Ahnie's crap!? They really do think the average person is dumb.

[Webster Green]

2. Here's some info on planned protests to greet the mofo...

Friday, April 21, 4-7pm
Mass Protest Against War Criminal George W. Bush!
LOCATION: Cisco Systems 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose (located at south side of the intersection of Champion Court and Tasman Drive, at the Champion Light Rail Station)

No WAR - On Immigrants! No WAR - On Iraq! No WAR - On Iran! Money for Jobs, Health Care & Education NOT for War & Occupation!

Sponsored by: South Bay Mobilization, Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition-San Francisco, Students for Justice, Not In Our Name, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), Global Exchange, The World Can't Wait, Progressive Alliance of Contra Costa County, Students for Justice, Code Pink, Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance, Peninsula Raging Grannies Action League, Gold Star Families Speak Out, California Peace Action, and others...

Join the ANSWER contingent to say US Out! End Colonial Occupation in Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, Afghanistan and everywhere! Amnesty Now - Full Rights for All Immigrants! US Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba!

TRANSPORTATION & CARPOOLS: If you can provide a ride or need a ride from SF or the East Bay, please call 415-821-6545 or from the South Bay 408-998-8504. For driving directions and public transportation and info visit http://www.southbaymobilization.org/
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Sat. April, 22 (afternoon, time TBA)
Protest George W. Bush in Sacramento
3300 Industrial Blvd., West Sacramento

To find out the exact time of the demonstration, call 415-821-6545. We will have more information in a few days.
For driving directions visit, http://www.cafcp.org/contact_driving.html. If you can provide a ride or need a ride from SF or the East Bay, please call 415-821-6545.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Wow, what a brain trust that'll be!

Ahhhnuld: Ve luff you, mister Boosh.

Chimpster: Hey, Ah don't go for that hummoseckshual stuff... Condi!

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Predator vs Drinker. Now on Pay-Per-View.

--p!

[Sadie5]

6. Wine country

Bush then will head to Napa County for what his aides describe as ''down time.''

He's going there to sample the wine. They call it down time, I call it booze time.

[jamesinca]

15. maybe they meant down on the floor puking

that to is down time.

[calimary]

7. The funny part about this is the very fact that it deserves a headline.

It's news that they're actually going to be in the same zip code together at the same time. Arnold's been trying "diplomatically" to avoid him. Scheduling conflicts, dontcha know? They're finally gonna meet. How 'bout that? Two shits on a shingle.

[fooj]

8. Payback to Little Lord Pissypants...

you know...letting him use his election thieves and all!!!!!!

[Up2Late]

9. I like the Mercury News headline better, they make it sound like wrestling

Posted on Tue, Apr. 18, 2006

Bush, Schwarzenegger to meet Friday in Silicon Valley

GOVERNOR WILL ASK FOR HELP ON LEVEES, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
By Kate Folmar
Mercury News

SACRAMENTO - President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet briefly on Friday in Silicon Valley, where the governor hopes to press for more federal funding to shore up California's aging levees and win reimbursement for incarceration of illegal immigrants.

Schwarzenegger is expected to meet the president when he touches down in the Bay Area. The governor will ride with Bush in the presidential motorcade to Cisco Systems in San Jose, where they will appear together.

There, Bush plans to discuss his American Competitiveness Initiative with a handful of Silicon Valley executives, including host Cisco CEO John Chambers. The governor, in turn, will lobby Bush for more federal funding.

``The governor is very enthusiastic about having a serious policy discussion with the president about issues that are critical to California, such as our levees,'' said Schwarzenegger press secretary Margita Thompson.

(more at link)

<http://www.miami.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14373053.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_politics>

[MisterP]

11. I hear AHNULD's quite fond of Silicon Valleys...

[BlueStater]

10. How unpopular is the Chimperor in California?

Whoever runs against Ah-nuld needs to remind Californians that the Gropinator campaigned for Lord Pissypants' re-election.

[salin]

12. IOW, Jr is afraid of driving around the Bay Area and wants

the physical protection of the steroid-movie star governor. As if the depleted gov (depleted physically by the long steroid use, and politically for showing the bully-dunce con that he is to the public) could protect jr from unhappy crowds...

[Demeter]

13. Two Bankrupt Slags, Each Thinking They Can Con The Other

the classic loser comedy ploy...or the modern version of Waiting for Godot!