August 30, 2005
SORRY, CINDY, I'M SEEING KATARINA NOW:
Bush cancels vacation to focus on relief (RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, August 30, 2005, Associated Press)
Medical disaster assistance teams from across the country were deployed to the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The Red Cross sent in 185 emergency vehicles to provide meals. And President Bush cut short his vacation Tuesday to return to Washington to focus on the storm damage.White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president will chair a meeting Wednesday of a White House task force set up to coordinate the federal response and relief effort.
"We have a lot of work to do," the president said of the storm FEMA director Michael Brown has termed catastrophic.
When God hands you a convenient way out of Crawford it's no wonder you believe in Providence. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 30, 2005 1:44 PM
Providence? That's so 1938.
Posted by: ghostcat at August 30, 2005 8:23 PMProvidence?!? Don't you realize W. CAUSED this hurricane?
Posted by: obc at August 30, 2005 9:21 PMI suppose we can expect to see Cindy motorboating into New Orleans any day now to find solidarity with people complaining the government hasn't moved fast enough to fix the damage from Katrina because we're spending all our resources in Iraq while Bush, Cheney and their Big Oil pals gouge Americans at the gas pump.
Posted by: John at August 30, 2005 9:32 PMMs. Sheehan, you 15 minutes are over.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz
at August 30, 2005 9:50 PM
14:57, 14:58, 14:59, ding, ding ding. (Shoot Robert, you beat me to it).
Posted by: Jeff at August 30, 2005 10:28 PM