Posted on 07/29/2003 7:43:09 PM PDT by deport
Bush headed to Crawford for August
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
WASHINGTON President Bush will spend most of August at his Crawford ranch, but frequent trips will take him to key electoral states in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
Bush will be in Crawford's "Western White House" from Aug. 2 to 31, but at least seven of those days will be spent outside Texas on trips that combine fund-raisers with events promoting two key policy areas conservation and the economy.
"This August, the president looks forward to traveling throughout the heartland to highlight his initiatives to preserve our natural resources and protect American jobs," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday.
The trips begin on the West Coast and three states that sport 73 electoral votes.
Bush will spend two days in California on Aug. 14 and 15 to visit troops near San Diego and tour the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, where he will discuss efforts to improve the national park system.
California has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Bush's father won in 1988, and Al Gore defeated the current president in the state by 1.3 million votes in 2000. But with the state budget in crisis and Democratic Gov. Gray Davis facing an Oct. 7 recall election, Republicans are buoyed by their chances to pick up California's 55 electoral votes, a gain that would go far toward assuring a Bush re-election.
One week later, the president will make one-day visits to Oregon and Washington, states he narrowly lost in 2000, to discuss wildfire prevention and improving salmon habitat key issues in the northwest states.
Toward the end of August, Bush will shift his concentration to the Midwest, where he will address the American Legion national convention in St. Louis and attend a fund-raiser for Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., on Aug. 24.
He will visit two as-yet unannounced Midwest states Aug. 27 and attend Labor Day festivities in Ohio on Sept. 1.
During August, Bush will attend campaign fund-raisers in Denver; Minneapolis; San Diego and Irvine, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; and Bellevue, Wash. He and first lady Laura Bush also will host an Aug. 9 campaign reception in Crawford that is not a fund-raiser, McClellan said.
clindell@statesman.com, (202) 887-8329
In fact, the possibility never crossed my mind. I don't think it is possible unless the busses are not running or the state implodes.
Remember the screeching temper tantrums they threw when Bush took his first Crawford vacation? It just infuriated them to realize they weren't going to be able to hang out with the "beautiful people" at Martha's Vineyard any more.
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Better yet, put on the chaps, jacket and gloves and take 'em on a tour of a bramble thicket.
The press are incessant bleaters.
Our President will ignore this inferiority.
Our Nation will remain secure.
Good News for America!
Thanks, Mr. President.
It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports:About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths."
Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
I would inveigle the heavy left quisling maggot pressy vermin out onto a piece of range where the ground was just beginning to shake from the onrush of five thousand head of totally spooked out buffalo. A great feed for the ravens. Someone rancher around Crawford has got to have some buffalo - so just do it, videotape it and send a copy to Dubya, just for a giggle, dontcha know.
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