Chimp in "Hurricane Management Mode" (San Antonio off itinerary)

[Sparkly]

WASHINGTON -
President Bush turned to hurricane management mode on Friday, pledging at his administration's disaster headquarters to keep a close eye on the federal response to Hurricane Rita.

Bush had planned to go to San Antonio but dropped that visit because search and rescue teams there were being relocated as the huge storm shifted course, the White House said. Bush still was going to Colorado to monitor Rita's progress from the U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs. The facility was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as the military's homeland security command center.

Bush was trying to walk a line between helping in a crisis and being seen as interfering. "There will be no risk of me getting in the way, I promise you," the president said.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the
Federal Emergency Management Agency was repositioning search and rescue teams closer to the storm "and we didn't want to slow that decision up in any way."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050923/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AjTLSqdJWNHV1FYcdjxNb_6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

Did David Gregory's questions prompt that "trying to walk a line" thing?

[rocktivity]

1. He's gonna land Rita just as smoothly

as that Jet Blue pilot landed the plane with the broken front wheel!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Dancing_Dave]

2. The Chimp didn't get in the way on 9/11 either

Dick Cheney knew what he was doing when he sent the Chimp to an elementary school in Florida that day.

So did Dick figure that the chimp would be most out of the way in Colorado Springs this time? The worst that could happen is the President might fall off a mountain bike.

[Dhalgren]

3. In a word, yes. This PR-esident is simply a suit being shuffled

around by handlers in a coordinated series of "stunts" to try and inflate his sagging numbers. There is no "there" there. He hasn't the slightest idea of what is going on around him in the room, much less somewhere in another part of the country. He is just staggering from one photo op to the next in an extremely frightening way, showing that what little substance he may once have had was drowned in the toxic swill of New Orleans...

[ClintonTyree]

4. That blank, empty stare says it all..............

"where the hell am I am what am I doing here? Damn, I wish my Daddy's buddies had never given me this job. This is too damned much work. I wish I was back on the ranch, cuttin' brush. I'm a damned fine brush cutter, I am. Where's Condi? I think I might have to go to the bathroom!"

[Gman]

5. Why doesn't he go to Ellington Field in Houston

to monitor the damn thing? Oh, I forgot... he was grounded from flying for insubordination. Bad memories, probably make him start drinking more. Maybe pick another fist fight with dad.