I say about 2K!
Who is going to pay for all that training --- maybe they should have left some of them with jobs so they could pay for their own training.
The simpering, fawning, kowtowing excuse-all sycophants who hang on his every word and call for the heads of his conservative critics--they are the real danger both to his presidency and to this nation. They demand no accountability whatsoever and are content to allow him to distribute breezy platitides to chew on rather than give them the meat of responsible self-government.
I personally like Bush a great deal. He's a wonderful, caring, capable, and decisive man. But he has been ill-served by his legion of blind-worship fans. It is my fondest desire that he be marked in history as one of our great presidents. Unfortunately he has just about squandered his best chances to reach even the second tier.
We "unappeasables" are Bush's best and most loyal friends--because we're willing to tell him his breath stinks and his fly is undone while all his swooning fans bat their eyelashes and beg to be allowed to kiss his Texas boots.
Bushes' guests at State of Union speech
Associated Press
Guests of President Bush and Laura Bush in her VIP box during the State of the Union speech:
White House legislative liaison David Hobbs.
Marine Corps Sgt. Dawn Michelle Campbell of Madison, Wis., who returned from service in Iraq last June.
Ex-offender Julio Medina, who formed the Exodus Transitional Community to help people reintegrate into society from prison.
Sister Carol Keehan, president and chief executive of Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Rend Al-Rahim, executive director of the Iraq Foundation and the Iraqi Governing Council's representative in Washington.
Eileen Halter, chief executive of Schnipke Engraving Co. in Ottoville, Ohio, invited to illustrate the benefits of Bush's tax cuts.
The Rev. Helen S. Fleming, who founded the Lena Maloney Community Development Corp. in Philadelphia in 1998 to support children of prisoners and to provide a computer lab for the elderly and unemployed and financial and legal counseling.
Army Chief Warrant Officer Stephen Douglas Combs Jr., of Fall River, Mass., who helped in the raids that captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Jim Diesing of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Minneapolis, Minn., along with his little brother in the program, 13-year-old David Moreno.
District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams.
Tamika Catchings of Indianapolis, Ind., a member of USA Basketball 2004 Women's senior national team and of the WNBA Indiana Fever.
Elsie Blanton of Apopka, Fla., invited to showcase the benefits of the recently passed Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Clinton Ward Smith Jr., of Forestville, Md., who returned last October from service in Baghdad.
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Matthew Kuczirka of Cincinnati, who returned Friday from service in the Arabian Gulf.
National Guard Spc. Matthew Moss of Oxnard, Calif., who returned from Baghdad in November because of combat injuries.
New Teacher Project chief executive Michelle Rhee.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Christopher Roundtree of New York, who returned last August from service in Bahrain.
Alma Powell, wife of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Joyce Rumsfeld, wife of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, founder of the Pyramid Community Development Corp. and a longtime Bush family friend.
Bush family friend Suzette Caldwell of Houston.
Staff Sgt. Joey Marshal Wommack of Garland, Texas, who returned from Iraq on Jan. 4 and is scheduled to go back this month.
Longtime Bush adviser Karen Hughes.
Adnan Pachachi, current president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Couldn't happen to a more deserving nutcase.
I love his red tie.