*'s FIFTH visit to Gulf Coast

[paineinthearse]

Live on CSPAN now. Just arriving at Gulfport Air Force base.

He's emerging from the cargo bay, not the usual exit.

Anyone remember the pic of him looking shitfaced, exiting that door?

[berni_mccoy]

1. Like a bad itch from poison ivy,...

He just can't stop scratching it... and it's already spreading and bleading... his poll-numbers can't withstand another visit.

[Imagevision]

2. The closer we get to 06 - The more Bush has to show something for the

GOP not to start bad mouthing him. Katrina showed what this jerk for a president is made of and his obvious shory comings, to think this little weasel is responsible for so many dead people is pathetically gross!

[StellaBlue]

3. my comment (and I am watching it on CSPAN)

:puke:

[frankly_fedup2]

4. What's taking him so long????

Probably had to have another bathroom break.

In all the visits that he has made, has he gotten close to any of the people in the really "bad" areas of the city? I've seen him hugging to beautiful young ladies and walking with them while they had bottles of water and food in their hands; however, I have not seen him get into a crowd of people like he did with the 9/11 survivor families.

Wonder if the photos taken with that young black man were for the young man or a photo op for Bush?

WOW! That was quick.

[gratuitous]

5. "Keep going down there, Mr. President"

The law of averages says that something good is bound to happen one of these times.

Dumbya: "I never studied law. Heh, heh, heh."

[livetohike]

6. Keeping going there and we'll see your poll numbers

continue to drop.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Working around the clock

[jobycom]

8. Damn. How are we going to get his stench out of my home town!

Wish he'd stick to polluting Crawford.

[Justyce]

9. How much does this cost the

tax payers every time he flies his entire crew down there for another photo op?? I can think of plenty of ways to better spend that money!

[Arkansas Granny]

15. Check this link;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32389-2005Apr6.html

Info is in 3rd paragraph from bottom of article.

[Justyce]

21. Geez - that is outrageous!

I wonder why more people don't take issue with this, especially his followers who supposedly don't like government spending & wasting money... thanks for the link!

[Justyce]

10. self-delete, duplicate

sorry

[Selatius]

11. Bush simply appointed incompetent people to head up FEMA

It's a spoils system. To the winner go the spoils. It doesn't matter if the gift goes to the most incompetent of friends. What matters is that favors were repaid.

[adaada]

12. Dear Mr. Bush: Photo Ops will not help you now . Sincerely, The Country

[Historic NY]

13. Five times are not going to help.......you keep reminding people just...

how incompetent you and your administration are.

[catmandu57]

14. Is someone pushing him? babs? poppy maybe?

It sure seems like someone is behind this saying you're going to do this until you get it right, I don't care how long it takes.
In which case like a petulent child he'll do worse each time.

[underpants]

16. He walked down the ramp?

You have to be kidding.

This must be there "WORKING HARD" image.

:eyes:

[formercia]

17. Now the real work has to stop

so he can gladhand people who should know better.

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. They don't know what else for him to do. Robert Scheer (LAT) has it right:

This is one of three excellent RObert Scheer op/ed articles in the LA TImes I've posted in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x158169
thread title: LA Times/Robert Scheer: Three weeks of insights on Bush and Katrina

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer13sep13,0,7935658.column
September 13, 2005 latimes.com : Opinion
ROBERT SCHEER:

Finally fooling none of the people

(snip)

Then there is the fact that the first-responder corps has been vastly depleted by Bush's misadventure in Iraq. Visiting New Orleans on Monday, Bush argued that "it is preposterous to claim that the engagement in Iraq meant there weren't enough troops" to help with hurricane relief. Oh yeah? Tell that to the nearly 35% of Louisiana's Army and Air National Guard forces and 37% of Mississippi's National Guard troops deployed abroad, mostly in Iraq. "Had been at home and not in Iraq, their expertise and capabilities could have been brought to bear," said Army Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, the National Guard Bureau's chief, referring to the critical first hours of the disaster.

Unfortunately, what the Bush White House is good at when it comes to national security is providing flash over substance, as Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana found out the hard way. After riding in a helicopter with the president and seeing machinery apparently working on the breached 17th Street levee, she was shocked the next day to find the work mysteriously stopped. "Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment," said the senator in a press release.

For far too long, this kind of shenanigan worked well for Bush, allowing him to narrowly win a second term. His administration was asleep at the switch on 9/11 even though "the system was blinking red," according to the then-CIA chief. Bush grabbed a bullhorn at ground zero and remade himself as a "war president" — and suffered no real political damage from the failure to either capture Osama bin Laden or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

But, as one of this nation's greatest war presidents said, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. With the Iraq war grinding on with no end in sight and the postmortems of the Katrina debacle showing the White House and Homeland Security Department to have been as confused and inept as FEMA itself, Bush's support in several national polls has continued a steady plunge to below 40%. A Newsweek poll found that, for the first time, less than a majority of Americans felt Bush possesses "strong leadership qualities," his signature claim to fame. Boy, have they got that right.

(snip)

[mshasta]

19. ohmg please!!!

is like a dog chasing he's tail...over and over... :crazy:

[Jane Austin]

20. I think we should really be talking up the cost of these trips

to friends and the media.

Every time I see his special helicopter and the rest of his accoutrements cluttering up the hurricane region, I go livid at the monetary cost of this fraud's photo op trips.

I think I'll start by emailing Ron Reagan's show and Jack Cafferty.

That old curmudgeon probably doesn't like that waste of funds and time any more than I do, and he has a wider audience than I do. :)

[Jane Austin]

22. And while we're at it, we might as well tie it to

all Republicans, who sit silently by, not raising a peep about this huge waste of money that could be gong to relief.

Every Republican officeholder should pay in votes next year for enabling and encouraging this disastrous Presidency.

Am I wrong?

[indepat]

23. Photo-oping out the giggy