Bush to visit bridge scene

[MnFats]

Source: strib of mpls

President George W. Bush will visit Minneapolis on Saturday to inspect bridge collapse damage and confer with local and federal officials, according to White House spokesman Alex Conant. No details of Bush's schedule were immediately available Thursday afternoon.
The presidential visit will come a day after First Lady Laura Bush tours the collapse site as part of previously scheduled trip to the city. After touring the disaster site, Mrs. Bush will address a youth conference at the University of Minnesota.

Read more: startribune.com

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oh, boy the commander guy is coming
everything will be better now.
perhaps he's coming to see if the GOP should pull its convention out of the twin cities..

[valerief]

1. Hope he doesn't jump! Only kidding. nt

[Tyler Durden]

37. Hope nobody PUSHES him! Only kidding. nt.

[Demeter]

2. God! That's All This Disaster Needs

The cock crowing from the top of his dung hill.

[sakabatou]

31. So two disasters in one town

[Demeter]

39. Three, if You Count the First Lady!

[Mojambo]

3. Photo-op. Straight out of the playbook. n/t

[Captain Angry]

4. Now how long was it before he got to the Gulf coast?

[classysassy]

11. my

kind of people live in minner soda.

[onehandle]

5. That should help Al Franken out.

He'll remind us which party supported not financing our infrastructure.

Hopefully Coleman will show up for a photo op.

[rodeodance]

6. it will cause a shutdown other major arteries! --two days in a row!

[LiberalFighter]

42. Not exactly a good situation when they are without 1 major infrastructure

Maybe the Governor should declare a state of emergency for that day prohibiting anyone from being within a 20 mile area.

[geomon666]

7. Will he bring his guitar?

I won't feel safe until he makes a promise about funding the rebuild and he hugs a black person.

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

16. I want him to get his black person disaster photo op hug with

PRINCE

[catgirl]

22. Do you have a link to that photo?

How did I miss that? I hope someone throws a rotten tomato at him.

[ninkasi]

30. Apparently, there was no air guitar to play,

and no birthday cake to eat, and no brush to clear. Otherwise, it would be a long time before he even acknowledged the disaster. What a POS.

[liberal N proud]

8. The disaster president visiting another scene of his crimes

The bridge is a result of the Republicans "less government" ideals

[C_U_L8R]

9. Hey Bush- you know where to put the megaphone

[Rick Myers]

10. Attention all black women, bald men and messikans, avoid downtown on Saturday

The head-kisser is coming for a photo-op!!! And ahh, a Norm Coleman fundraiser!!! :grr:

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Just what they need - more wreckage on the scene.

[Doctor_J]

13. Nothing like dead Americans to help prop Stupid up

VaTech, now this. Wherever there's death and destruction, * can be counted on to try to make political points. Except for soldier funerals of course.

[IndianaGreen]

14. A presidential photo op while they are pulling bodies out of the river... tasteless!

The man is shameless!

[Doctor_J]

15. How are they going to keep the hecklers and patriots away?

* only appears before hand picked fawning sycophants. How are they going keep the 75% that hate his guts away from the camera?

[catgirl]

23. The Bush Admin. needed this

The Rove story was just coming out. This buries the Tillman story too. Oh, and
the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia...that's a good one to bury. They don't care about
the dead and injured.

[MadMaddie]

17. So he has already stood on the Pile of Rubble on 09/11

He had the cod piece air flight picture "Mission Accomplished"

Katrina-staged shot with generators while the rest of the city was in darkness..

I don't know....maybe a divers suit and mouthpiece....Firemans hat...wait I think he did that on 09/11 on the rubble...


Wait I got it...there were black kids on the bus....there ya go....he is going to have a photo op with the No Child Left Behind benefactors...

:banghead:

[Frosty1]

18. He going to help normie raise money for his campaign while he's here.

:thumbsdown:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1500197

[Lautremont]

19. Can he be placed in some sort of airtight bubble for the duration of the visit?

[Demeter]

40. Did You Say Airless Bubble?

[ben_meyers]

20. He is going to wave this report around

And say "My daddy warned you in 1990 that this bridge wasn't safe".

In 1990, the federal government gave the I-35W bridge a rating of "structurally deficient," citing significant corrosion in its bearings. The bridge is one of 77,000 bridges in that category nationwide, 1,160 in Minnesota alone.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_re_us/bridge_collapse

[tabasco]

35. More from the link:

The designation means some portions of the bridge needed to be scheduled for repair or replacement, and it was on a schedule for inspection every two years. During the 1990s, later inspections found fatigue cracks and corrosion in the steel around the bridge's joints. Those problems were repaired. Starting in 1993, the state said, the bridge was inspected annually instead of every other year.

A 2005 federal inspection rated the bridge structurally deficient, giving it a 50 on scale of 100 for structural stability.

[Beetwasher]

21. If There's A Big Rubble Pile, Chimpy Will Be There

Rubble is like lodestone for Chimpy. He's inexorably drawn to (and responsible for most of it) destruction.

[Diane R]

24. As Stephen Colbert would say, he doesn't just 'stand FOR things, he stands ON things'.

Look for him on the safest piece of rubble that the advance team can find. And don't worry; protesters won't be allowed in the photos.

[MasonJar]

25. Another photo op! Why does he even bother at this point?

[Cha]

26. Now bushit is the infra-structure gone

to shite guy.

[sutz12]

27. It sure takes him a while to set up his photo ops....

Clinton would have been there last night.

:evilgrin:

[Botany]

28. Lucky Minneapolis

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. Oh thank God! Now things will get done!

:eyes:

[MetaTrope]

32. He's out there to blame it on Al-Qaeda, declare it a national disaster

and take charge of the nation under his executive order.

[EClark5483]

33. Now all you need is

For Shirley Phelps to show up to say God made the bridge collapse and all those who perished were fag enablers.

[BearSquirrel2]

34. Another day ... another pile of rubbel ...

Will there be a pile of rubbel in the US unsoiled by GW Bush's exploitation until this vampire leaves office???

[EClark5483]

36. You know, as of late I have come to...

The conclusion that the world is now in a dormant state. Bush has no choice but try and earn brownie points. It doesn't matter if he visits the site or not. I think his administrations actions as a whole have sealed his coffin. If I were the such a disgraced President, I too would resort to hiding at camp david till my time is up, and only make an appearance as a gesture of sympathy to whatever media frenzy story of the month dilemma comes along that DOESN'T involve the war.

You don't think he knows what a disgrace people think he is?

[Eurobabe]

38. Protest his fucking ass!!! Please?

:banghead:

[spanone]

41. he never misses a disaster photo-op

[LiberalFighter]

43. Will he personally inspect the rubble underneath the bridge?