Bush Pledges to Keep Close Eye on Rita

[ClintonTyree]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_9


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - President Bush switched to hands-on hurricane management mode Friday, pledging to keep close tabs on his administration's response to Rita and hurrying to the military's homeland security command to monitor the storm's path.

Arriving at the U.S. Northern Command in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains at sunset, Bush went straight into a private briefing on the huge storm, expected to land along the Texas-Louisiana coast early Saturday.

At the command, created as part of a federal reorganization in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Bush viewed huge television screens with a map of the storm, five-day precipitation forecast and river flooding outlook.

The president was remaining on Peterson Air Force Base for the night. On Saturday, he was having breakfast with troops, taking a tour of NORTHCOM and getting another hurricane update. From there he was heading to Austin, Texas, the home of the state's emergency operations center, and then to San Antonio, where he was spending Saturday night.


Photo-op after photo-op. Presidentin' is HARD WORK! Vote this sucker DOWN!

[madame defarge]

1. and the other eye on the bottle...n/t

[ClintonTyree]

3. I think he's on a Jim Beam IV right about now..........

that bottle stuff wastes too much time.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Whew! Well we can all sleep safe in our beds tonight!

:banghead:

[Shine]

4. Good to know. Gosh, I feel so much SAFER knowing he's

on top of it.

:sarcasm:

[longship]

5. And he can't even keep an eye on Bianca?

Sir, my name is Beam.... Jim Beam.

[riverwalker]

6. "gonna observe the INTERFACE"

he said that about 4 times today. Acted like he just learned a new word and his English teacher told him to use it in a sentence.
"Uh uh, ahm gonna be observin' the INTERFACE of the federal government and military and the locals....gonna be seeing how they do the INTERFACING" blink... blink.. "it's important, you see, how they INTERFACE"

[KT2000]

7. Illustrated the stark contrast

between his last lack of effort. Now he has turned into a cartoon character of a pest.

[MarianJack]

8. He'll Watch HARD...

...between bites of birthday cake!

For America's sake, as someone else put it, "GEORGE, STOP!"