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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:42 AM
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Via WDSU TV: Bush to return to DC
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 12:00 PM by MADem
The newsreader on WDSU, which is doing round the clock NO hurricane coverage, just announced that chimp is cutting his vacation short, leaving San Diego, and returning to DC. His decision, apparently, was taken as a consequence of the devastation in NOLA.

No link, was a TV broadcast, will find one and post it asap.

Edit, link: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts.

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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:45 AM
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1. Wow, he finally gets it
Nice to know he'll be "in charge" now. What a sacrifice he's making, cutting his vacation from his vacation short and all...
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:48 AM
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5. No he doesn't get it. HE IS LEAVING FOR DC *TOMORROW*
WTF is so important that he cannot point Air Force One East?

He could be in DC in what 5 hours?

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Tyranny_R_US Donating Member (988 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:13 PM
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17. So he is staying 2 days the media is just trying to water it down.
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:35 PM
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24. Seems like it
Don't rush back to D.C. on our account.

:-(
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:46 PM
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26. No. Since he's been willing to travel around to Arizona and other
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 12:51 PM by calimary
places to make speeches, no, he DOESN'T get it. He's got plenty of time for his own damned, blasted PR campaigns, but precious little when it comes to caring for the other guy. Gee, that's mighty big of him, 'eh? Throw a crumb to the peons. Compassionate conservatism my ass. Did you see how they billed Will Pitt's article in Truthout - talking about the guy who takes more vacation time than a French aristocrat?

William Rivers Pitt | Here's the Funny Part
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005I.shtml
George W. Bush coughed up his latest rationale for continuing the Iraq war - I think this is the fourth or fifth one of these to this point - by saying that because so many American soldiers have been killed, we have to keep sending American soldiers to get killed as a means of honoring the American soldiers who have been killed. William Rivers Pitt says this is big talk from a guy who spends more time on vacation than a French aristocrat.


Perhaps the First Dog-Dropper is waiting til tomorrow so his faithful can find him a donkey to ride in on, and lots of palm fronds to wave in the air as they shout their "hosannas."

DISGRACEFUL.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:45 AM
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Got a link for the newsreader? n/t
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:48 AM
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7. Not yet, it goes by on the TV crawl, and they are talking about it now
The federal gov't aid angle, is what I mean by 'it.'

I'm still searching for a print link, but I thought that the chimp cutting his vacation by more than half a week merited the announcement without one!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:54 AM
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9. WDSU just got knocked off the air (with a link to initial report, above)
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 11:59 AM by MADem
They weren't even broadcasting from their regular studio...man, it must be a total mess over there...

WWL is working, though: http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

One more edit to add a link: 11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts. http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:07 PM
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13. "...to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts."
This really means that they have a better TV at the White House
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:18 PM
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18. And we know chump does not know how to use them internets
...to get the streaming newscasts.

I switched to WWL -- they are doing a fine job, BTW. http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:18 PM
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19. I think it is just 2 days
wasn't he going back to DC on Thursday?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:21 PM
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21. The newsreader may have been mistaken, but I thought she said
he was scheduled to return to DC at the weekend.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:33 PM
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23. Reuter says 2 days earlier
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, on a month-long vacation at his Texas ranch, will return to Washington on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned, to help oversee recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina, the White House said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050830/pl_nm/weather_katrina_bush_dc

What a great sacrifice for his nation.:sarcasm:

He should fly to Crawford, meet with Cindy...then do a helo tour of the states effected by the Hurricane. But he'll just go the the WH and watch it all on his big screen tv. Wonder how many pretzels he'll throw down this week.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:45 AM
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2. WDSU link: The real news about NOLA,MS and AL:
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VADem11 Donating Member (783 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:46 AM
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3. Hallelujah!
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 11:49 AM by VADem11
Our brave and mighty president is sacrificing his well earned and precious vacation. He will surely solve all of our problems. Thank you President Bush!

:sarcasm:
He couldn't even come back yesterday? What an ass.
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:47 AM
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4. whatever. he can be useless in DC as easily as in Crawford (n/t)
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:48 AM
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6. looks like hes been told its photo op time
as if his returning to DC means anything else. Pfft. POS.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:50 AM
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8. Poor Smirky, his French vacation was ruined!
"The nerve of that bitch Katrina, killin' all those nice red staters. Is that Katrina a tairist, Unka Karl?"
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 02:05 PM
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28. don't worry - long weekend coming up
so he can rest up at Camp David from all this hard prezidentin' stuff.

Or maybe the White House renovations got finished early...
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 11:55 AM
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10. Perfectly fine to vacation while our troops are dying in Iraqs devastation
though. What an idiotic, uncaring, incompetent poopy head he is.
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:00 PM
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11. * is probably mad as hell. vacation is minus two days, sheehan is parked
in the gate (or close to it) to his prairie home chapel ... the damn hurricane is inconveniencing his blah-blah-blah speeches ... when * gets angry we had all better watch out!
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iowa_democrat Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:06 PM
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12. Wow, this must be really important...
The last thing to cause b*sh to cut short a vacation and return to DC was Teri Schivo.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:09 PM
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14. He's not equipped to run things from Crawford?
Now there's a change of direction. :rofl:

When he went to the Bush Estate, WH spinners were telling us that he can do the same things in Crawford as in Washington because it is fully equipped! Now it isn't?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:20 PM
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20. He is killing two birds with one flight to DC
He is running away from Cindy without appearing to do so, and

He is "appearing concerned."

It's all bullshit, his stock in trade!
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:24 PM
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22. More like flipping the bird
at Cindy as he flies back to DC. He probably couldn't get out of Crawford fast enough and thinks Katrina is a gift from God to him. Let's him show his leeeaaaadership all over again. (Bush laugh: heh heh heh)
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:09 PM
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15. hope he plugs his phone in this time n/t
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:13 PM
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16. He must have met his fundraising goal
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 12:13 PM by meganmonkey
:puke:
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:46 PM
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25. He's Fleeing the HERicane in Crawford...The Cindy Sheehan HERicane!
Everyone knows good and damned well why the Coward of the County is fleeing Crawford...Hericane Sheehan with its relentless tidal waves and pounding winds of questioning AWOL Bush's failed Iraqi War policies.
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DLnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 01:35 PM
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27. like 9/11, they wil focus on managing the images.
After 9/11 in NYC, 'authorities' went to amazing lengths to manage the images. Fences 20 feet high covered with tarps were erected on all streets so that no-one could see ground zero. Lots of police and army (?guard?) prevented anyone from even getting south of 14th Street for weeks. Media images never really documented the horrifying extent of the devastation. Only a few (vetted?) images were shown of the actual wreckage.

My guess is bushit is wandering back to DC to attend meetings focused on managing the images, as well as setting up blockades to prevent access. Sounds cynical, but comes from experience.

Maybe one of these days Americans will begin to demand actual performance from their institutions, instead of image management.
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nobushfan Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 02:13 PM
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29. Well, he's not exactly rushing back to D.C.
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 02:14 PM by nobushfan
He has time to strum the gitar and spend one more night in Crawford before he goes back to D.C. Overseein' FEMA is hard work...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/480/capm10108301730
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lateo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 02:56 PM
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30. Just like 9/11....
Bush took his sweet time getting back to DC then too.
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JustSayNO 2 Sheeples Donating Member (142 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 03:06 PM
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31. Fill me in, this wasn't deemed newsworthy hours ago?
Sorry for the change of subject but I am confused.

I put this out hours ago and the moderator decided it didn't belong as a breaking news item and it was moved to discussion. Why is it now a breaking news story?

(I read the rules for posting breaking news and I don't think I violated them. It was a TV news report of "this just in" on MSNBC)
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