A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 7/31/02

yahoo.com; whitehouse.gov; netscape.com ^ | July 31, 2002 | GretchenEE for rintense

[GretchenEE]

President Bush, while meeting with his cabinet, denounced the attack against Israel that killed seven and injured 80 people at the Hebrew University cafeteria. He issued a statement on America's current economic growth -- not as strong as he would like, but showing strong signs within the new Department of Commerce report (echoed by some private forecasters) that there will be growth of three to five percent, rather than the 1.1 percent for the spring quarter just past.

Bush met privately with Rudy Guliani, who was in the DC area to give a speech.

Ari Fleischer noted at his press briefing that 60 presidential nominees are awaiting confirmation in the Senate, among them: the Deputy Secretary of Energy; FEMA's Deputy Director; NASA's Deputy Administrator; the Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director; 29 foreign policy nominees (some for critical functions); and of course, judicial nominees. He noted that yesterday Daschle "made a commitment" (undefined by Ari) to the President about the nominations on hold and that some Senate members now are objecting to the commitment.

We're a little light on photos today.

[GretchenEE]

Quote from Today from Ari Fleischer at the press briefing (not word for word, as I did this from audio, but I didn't alter the meaning!): "The President is going on vacation next week; the president is entitled to take a vacation and people in DC I suppose are entitled to take pot shots." (The press laughed when he said that.)

Ari said that during the 25 days Bush will be in Texas, he will travel to 12 cities, hold an economic forum, and receive foreign leaders, which will equate to about two weeks of vacation.

Ari also said, "Washington is just a silly town where people sometimes don't let a good man have a vacation without making more of it than it is."

[GretchenEE]

Making a point during his Cabinet meeting about the deadly attack at Hebrew University ...

[Miss Marple]

Am I (gasp) first?

[Sabertooth]

pong!

[GretchenEE]

Tom Ridge speaks on homeland security before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington today. Senate Democrats served notice Wednesday that they will fight President Bush's desire for greater management flexibility within the proposed Homeland Security Department.

[kitkat]

WHOA! I have to be somewhere in the first 200.

[Sabertooth]

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[GretchenEE]

Apparently while searching for the most unflattering file photos of each, Yahoo reports:

Secretary of State Colin Powell met his North Korean counterpart, Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun (R) on July 31, 2002, the first such cabinet-level talks since President George Bush branded Pyongyang part of an 'axis of evil'. The pair's 15-minute informal chat was the highest-level U.S. contact with the reclusive communist state since October 2000.

[GretchenEE]

Rudolph Giuliani talks to the press following a private meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House today.

[Howlin]

I'd like to know how Rumsfeld keeps that cast so clean!

[Miss Marple]

Hmmm. I wonder what that private meeting was about!

[GretchenEE]

Rudy Guliani speaks to the press after a private meeting with President Bush in the White House today.

Apparently "unable" to find a photo of Rubin standing on his own, Yahoo posted this:

A key Senate Democrat said July 31, 2002 there was a possibility that former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin would be called to testify on Capitol Hill about his knowledge of the demise of Enron Corp. Rubin (R), now a Citigroup executive [oh come ON! he's the head of it!] who asked the Bush administration last fall to intervene on Enron's behalf with Wall Street credit rating agencies, is seen with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo on March 20.

[GretchenEE]

First Prize, Miss Marple!

[kitkat]

" Senate Democrats served notice Wednesday that they will fight President Bush's desire for greater
management flexibility within the proposed Homeland Security Department."

Sure, you stupid Dems, pack the Homeland Security Dept. with civil service people like you did the airport security. Some days you have to wonder if the dems would rather die than lose the power of office. Well, OK, the civil service people are already there, but they should be transferred when it's necessary, and some (not ALL) of them should be taught some work ethics.

[My2Cents]

Prime Minister Koizumi looks like that "Iron Chef" guy.

[GretchenEE]

The pressies asked if a job offer was on the table in that meeting. Ari, being his usual coy self, refused "to speculate."

[GretchenEE]

Oops on the double post of Rudy! Can't have too much of a good thing though. ;-)

[Soaring Feather]

yes

[Freee-dame]

Apparently "unable" to find a photo of Rubin standing on his own, Yahoo posted this: ..... is seen with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo on March 20.

Just in case we forget how much Rubin did in important "service to America".

[McGavin999]

Boy, I hope so, Guiliani would be perfect! He'd whip those agencies into line in no time flat and would have the full backing of the American people while he did it. The senate wouldn't DARE not confirm him either.