Bush plans Iowa flood tour

[sabra]

Source: desmoines register

Washington, D.C. – President Bush will visit flooded Iowa this week, possibly Thursday, congressional aides said today.

It’s not yet clear where the president may visit or when, aides said. But Beth Pellett Levine, press secretary to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Ia., said "it’s our understanding" that the president will be in the state.

Bush returns to the United States late tonight from a trip to Europe.

White House spokesman Blair Jones confirmed Bush would be touring Midwestern flood damage this week, but did not specify which states he would visit.

"The White House announced today the president will travel to the Midwest on
Thursday to inspect flood damage," Jones said.

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/NEWS/80616014/-1/LIFE04

[meegbear]

1. Haven't those people suffered enough?

[skoalyman]

26. apparently not according to his aids on another note

a good president would have dropped everything and done went there to inspect the damage but not bush:nopity:

[liberal N proud]

2. Time for that bu$h photo op tour

Stand next to some people who lost everything (maybe, maybe not) and look like you are going to help them recover Ha.

Iowa should tell him to stay the fuck away and send some checks instead

[BRLIB]

8. Send whatever it costs to have his 10,000 police keep him from

sure death as a check for the recovery. And MSM send whatever it costs to send your bootlicking scum to prop up the "Bushler", and stay home.

[gateley]

3. I bet the residents are thinking "don't bother". nt

[bluestateguy]

4. Governor Culver should respectfully ask him to stay away.

What does this accomplish?

How many cops and emergency management officials will be pulled away from their vital jobs so that he can go sightseeing?

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Just in time to see the work that Obama did filling sandbags.

[Debi]

6. Just in time to deny any assistance that Congress will try to provide

Harkin, Grassley, Braley, Loebsack (even King :wow:) have been here talking to folks (hauling sand bags too!) Bush? on Vaca and will now come to Iowa w/security lockdown as folks are trying to get into their homes for the first time in a week to salvage what's left of their belongings. :banghead:

[Tutonic]

7. Timing is Everything huh George?

Dear Mr. President:
The Iowa, Des Moines and Mississippi rivers are expected to be at crest stage BEFORE Thursday. Just like 9-11, Katrina and every other crisis in this country you fail to be there on time. You have once more demonstrated why the moniker "Chicken George" fits you best. Do you intend to strum on your guitar while flying over submerged Cedar Rapids? Will you "stage" a press conference on the outskirts of Iowa City and promise to put the weight of the federal government behind you in providing supplies, shelter and jobs to the abandoned? Will you dispatch whats left of the National Guard to Des Moines? What will you do Chicken?

[SpiralHawk]

18. "That's why they call me Commander AWOL." - Commander AWOL

[Frustratedlady]

9. Well, Golly Gee...I hate to tell the Prez, but the flood will be leaving Iowa

before Thursday. As usual, a day late and a dollar short.

His concern humbles me. Not!

[Supersedeas]

10. America is waiting for the fly-over photo-op -- maybe the DVD to edumacate the Pres is still in

production.

[Tutonic]

11. He'll be sporting the Codpiece.

Version 2008 with an even bigger bulge...It'll give that Iowa crowd something to take their minds off of their homelessness.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Actually, this is greart news

Thank you Prez-nit Boosh...

Your "day late dollar short" appearance will be such a contrast
to Obama's timely presence in Iowa.
More votes.

Yayyyy...

It will really help if Curious George could manage to say something totally inane, stupid,
inappropriate, etc. on the tour.

( Betcha he's smart enuff to stay on the plane...pissed off flood victims with shovels.....not good.)

[SpiralHawk]

13. "Bring him on." - Iowans

[uppityperson]

14. Will he then declare it a Disaster and free up fed help to help?

[Debi]

16. can you believe it? Governor Culver, who has been on the ground and HELPING

has declared 83 of Iowa's 99 counties disaster areas and has asked for federal assistance. Even with Chertoff and Paulson here Bush has only declared 24 of the 83 disaster areas. These people can't apply for FEMA or SBA assistance w/out that decleration....what an assclown.

[Demonaut]

15. Don't forget your geetar

and Condi's going on a shoe shopping spree

[bullwinkle428]

17. Cedar Rapids residents are already getting PISSED because

the police aren't letting them back in to look over their flooded properties as soon as they originally promised, and this is going to further divert their duties.

I hope he's not planning on Iowans greeting him with flowers and chocolates...

http://www.gazetteonline.com/

[MasonJar]

19. Bush flood zone photo op...and everyone knows it.

[semillama]

20. Oh, we all know the REAL reason he's going...

[papapi]

21. A quick fly over oughta do it: "Hell no don't set this thing down!"

[bullwinkle428]

22. It would be like the Simpsons episode "Marge vs. The Monorail" -

angry Cedar Rapidians would rush Air Force One upon landing, shaking the plane back and forth violently!

[maxsolomon]

23. louisiana 1927

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has
done
To this poor crackers land."

[Acadia Blue]

29. My aunt used to show me picture of where the water stopped in

Lafayette. There is a ridge running accross SW LA. right after the Vermillion river and that is where the water stopped. She had pictures of people on homemade rafts and it was amazing and terrible.

[damntexdem]

24. Oh, and he'll do a heckuva job of it, too.

[TheWatcher]

25. Did Katrina hit New Orleans again?

I swear I've read this story before.

Nah, I must be seeing things.

[truthisfreedom]

27. bushco announces Moses to part water

so bushco can pass without delay

[Acadia Blue]

28. Like Katrina? Are are they more important since most are reallyl

white? Was it because Louisiana had a democrat governor or was it because the poor blacks and whites mainly sufferred?
Lets see how compassionate the hate monger right wing radio is to the red red heartland. They blamed the victims in Katrina.