WP: Bush Tells Mississippi Planners: 'Think Bold'

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Tells Mississippi Planners: 'Think Bold'
By Michael Fletcher and Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; 3:54 PM


NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 20 -- President Bush, on his fifth trip to the devastated Gulf Coast, met with members of a Mississippi commission charting the state's recovery from Hurricane Katrina and told them to "think bold" when plotting their strategy.

"You really don't want the federal government telling you how to rebuild," Bush said. "You really want the federal government helping you rebuild." Bush said the federal government will allow local officials to take the lead in the rebuilding effort.

After his comments, Bush headed to New Orleans where he was briefed on recovery efforts there and got an update on Hurricane Rita, now a Category 2 hurricane crossing the Florida Straits on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Bush's trip to New Orleans came one day after he put pressure on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (D) to stop the reopening of the city.

On board the USS Iwo Jima, Bush watched large video screens beaming to him via videoconference the images of officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. Also shown was a big map showing Hurricane Rita's progress and projected track.

Bush, who then went on to tour a Folger's coffee plant in Louisiana, signed an emergency declaration for the Florida Keys. At the shipboard briefing, Bush was told there was a 5 percent chance of Rita hitting New Orleans with hurricane force, but chances were as high as 25 percent that it would hit the city as a tropical storm....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092000916.html

[phantom power]

1. Impeachment would be bold.

[jobycom]

4. I like the way you think! nt.

[rzemanfl]

2. DieBOLD? BoldLY? Why can't this moron speak English? n/t

[hardrainfallin]

16. anyone catch "so we can work more better"?

told my college class today I'd like to see ** pass a third grade grammar test.

[rzemanfl]

17. I need to read "more better" good catch. n/t

[MisterP]

3. what, is he selling steak sauce?

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Bush should be selling MISteak sauce.

[rodeodance]

10. he is buying his way out of low ratings with other peoples money.

[Eugene]

5. Oh goody! Shrub gets to play commander

in a situation room full of big screens
just like in the movies. :puke:

Please tell me that idiot didn't just offer
a blank check to GOP controlled Mississippi.

[jobycom]

6. Somebody please make him stop!

He's screwed up everything he's ever touched, and now he wants to rebuild my home town. He'll screw it up as badly as he raised Jenna!!! I liked it better when he was in Crawford ignoring the Gulf Coast.

[Dover]

7. Mississippi tells Bush, "THINK! Boob!" n/t

[klebean]

8. trent duffy? did scotty have a melt down?

[brentspeak]

11. "Just do it"; "We try harder"; "Coke is it!", "A little dab'll do ya!"

Bush is full of emply, dumb slogans that mean nothing. He's like a used car salesman.

[grytpype]

12. What's Jerry Bremmer up to these days?

He was pretty bold as I recall. And just look at the results.

[Inland]

13. "Thinka something good. I got nothing, myself."

It's one thing to give a pep talk, but for god's sake, can't he have a single idea of his own other than a promise to fund whatever leaps from a Mississippi GOP piehole?

[Jacobin]

14. Yeah, move the casinos to fucking Mars

[Polethebear]

15. Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

Georgie had a thought....

That did not involve "Get me a beer!!!!"


and Karl Rove responding "Yes,darling"


and they thought Judge Roberts being gay was scary.

[Orsino]

18. Translation: "Hurry Up and Save My Worthless Ass."

Bush boldly watches large video screens--several at once! Who says he can't multitask?

[Barrett808]

19. "Think Halliburton." n/t