Bush Going Today for more Photo Ops in Louisiana and Mississippi

[Bernardo de La Paz]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401337.html

Buried on the second page of the story:

The White House is moving on several fronts to repair Bush's image and streamline its response effort. Bush will return to Louisiana and Mississippi today.

also ...

Chertoff is in charge of operational briefings for Bush, which start early each morning and occur periodically throughout the day. White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. is coordinating the hurricane team, and Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, has been intimately involved in meetings. Bush, who typically works a fairly set schedule, has been working longer hours, getting in earlier than his usual 7 a.m. start and working as late as 9 p.m., at least two hours past his normal quitting time.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

1. Please don't let him go. His presence interferes with the rescue

and provisions missions. Mr. Bush, PLEASE STAY HOME!

[DanCa]

2. Is he going to stake out the site of trent lotts new house?

Still can't believe the maniac chimp said that.

[FightingIrish]

3. This idiot can't even get a photo op right. He has to have a

do over and we have to pay for it. I thought my experience in the Navy had taught me what a cluster fuck was, but this guy gives it a whole new meaning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. "Emerging line of defense"

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/politics-5/1125881042135470.xml&storylist=hurricane

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since two days after Hurricane Katrina lashed much of the Gulf Coast into oblivion, President Bush hasn't gone a day without a public event devoted to the storm. Monday was no different, as he planned a return to the storm-ravaged region for a third look at Katrina's effect with visits to Baton Rouge, La., and Poplarville, Miss.

But none of it — including a stream of Cabinet secretaries and other high-level federal officials to the area and on the airwaves Sunday — has quieted the complaints that Washington moved too slowly in the storm's aftermath.

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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff took up the administration's cause Sunday, dispatched to appear on all five network interview shows after damage-control efforts by the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, met with little success last week.

Chertoff echoed the White House line — saying the time to place blame will come later. But he also hinted at an emerging line of defense, saying federal officials had problems getting information from local officials and were surprised they hadn't been told by Thursday of the violence and horrible conditions at the New Orleans convention center.

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[Carolab]

5. Are the Bassier sisters available? n/t