It wasn't Rove or Chaney:what WH "aide" has power to order Bush around? [View All]

[Divernan]

According to an unnamed White House aide, Bush was minutes away from leaving the WH to head to San Antonio for another photo op, when his trip was cancelled because the weather was too sunny and photos wouldn't look like he was close to the hurricane action. Officially it was announced he didn't want to interfere with the FEMA search and rescue teams, but amazingly a WH source leaked that the real reason was the sunny weather.

Now yesterday Chaney was under the knife and then recovering from the surgery; Rove was at a fund raiser in Nebraska, Idaho, or somesuch Red State. There's no mention of Rice being with Bush. So if it was none of those high level puppet masters jerking Bush's strings around on his travel plans, one has to wonder how far down the chain of command in the WH are there people we've never even heard of who can order the "leader of the free world/wartime presdint/commander in chief around?!?!?

Can you even begin to imagine a White House "aide" making last minute changes like this on a REAL president? Or maybe the "sunny weather" excuse was a distraction and the real reason was that he looked too hung over (as has been discussed on another thread) for a photo op.

"Mr. President, here's the pizza you wanted and by the way, I've ordered the pilot of Air Force One to deep six the flight plan to San Antonio, and just take you to Colorado." Bush: "Whatever."