Why the hell are you in my state?

Dear President Bush:

Why the hell are you in my state?  You are currently here in Arizona.  El Mirage (a small Phoenix suburb), to be exact.

Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi are suffering tremendously due to Hurricane Katrina and you are here, in Arizona, soaking up the rays of a 110 F degree day.

Why the hell are you in my state?

I am absolutely appalled at what has brought you here: You are here to discuss Medicare reform.

Yup, that's right, Mr. President.  You are here, clogging up I-10 with your entourage while further east on I-10, people in New Orleans are wondering if they will return to a pile of bricks for their homes.

Why the hell are you in my state?

We are all sitting on pins and needles wondering if the amazing city that is New Orleans - with its culture and flair and fantastic food - is going to make it out of this catastrophe intact.  You, on the other hand, have decided that Medicare reform stump speeches have to be made today.  In sunny Phoenix.

Why the hell are you in my state?

When Ms. Schiavo was ready to pass and finally find some peace, you stripped off your pajamas and flew in a moment's notice back to DC from Crawford to sign a bill allowing her parents to seek injunctive relief in the federal courts.  The world stopped while you just had to be back in the capital city showing how much your "culture of life" really meant to you.

Today, however, you are in Phoenix and spreading your gloom and doom about how if Medicare isn't reformed ASAP, the end is nigh.  Meanwhile, the people of the Gulf Coast are devastated.

Why the hell are you in my state?

I have since given up trying to understand your twisted sense of priorities, Mr. President.  I am pretty sure it all boils down to you proping yourself up for political gain at every turn.  But you blew it on this one.  No one cares about Medicare reform right now, Mr. President.  Not today, not tomorrow.  Maybe next week.  But not today.

I am not asking you to brave the winds and rain of Katrina by going to the Gulf Coast.  However, I am asking you to go back to the seat of power and at least look presidential.  That would go a long way to soothing the nerves of people who are wondering what the federal government is doing to help the people of New Orleans.  Right now, all we see is you with your smirk on your face talking about Medicare reform.

And now the people of Arizona are asking:

Why the hell are you in my state?

•  Make a sign

  protest his visit in AZ if you are close by.

  I am as outraged as you - cannot believe this man's lack of compassion.

  And with Bush: Common sense is not commom.

  by sara seattle on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 10:24:15 AM PDT

•  Not only that

  but why is he wearing a shiny brown suit?!  Is it an Arizona thing?

  Just don't send him here.  (Georgia.)

  by socratic on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 10:28:40 AM PDT

•  OMG! He is so disgusting!

  Monkey boy and his Medicare agenda, or how can I screw seniors more than I have already?

  by txbirdman on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 10:38:23 AM PDT

•  I had planned on taking the day off

  today and join the protest in El Mirage but I decided last night not to make the necessary arrangements. I figured there was no way in hell that he'd show up during a national emergency. Boy, is my face red!

  by Blue Intrigue on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 10:46:15 AM PDT

  •  Good diary - recommended.

    Maybe this is what it will take for the good people of Louisiana (and hopefully the rest of the hurricane-hit South) to realize that Bush does not have their best interests at heart. Bet they'd love a do-over of the 2004 election.

    by annoy the repugs on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 11:08:24 AM PDT

    •  Also recommended

      This diary asks a question that needs to be answered: Why indeed is Bush in AZ peddling Federal subsidies for big drug companies on today of all days?

      Very well written.

      by Outsourcing Is Treason on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:02:25 PM PDT

•  With this bunch of assholes

  it's sell, sell, sell all the time.  What's he going to sell in New Orleans or Gulfport?  So he pays minimal lip service to the Katrina disaster unfolding miles behind his baboon ass and gets about the Real Business of selling his packaged Medicare "reform" bill.

  And for the millionth kajillionth time, can you image the howl from the right (and the MSM) had Clinton pulled this kind of stunt?

  by Black Max on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 11:12:18 AM PDT

•  Money

  Bush only cares about the kind of people who can give him and the party money.  The kind of people who can give him advise on how to rip off more money from the common people so he and his friends can get richer.  He's only happy and all smiles when he's giving speeches on how he's going to screw us common people.  

  The people of the Gulf States are going to need help and money to recover.  Two things which don't interest him.  He was all over the Florida hurricanes because he was helping out his brother.  Let's wait and see if he's handing out ice and water in LA, MS or AL.

  by CD in TX on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 11:23:38 AM PDT

•  I

  didn't even find out he was going to be here (the AFB is just like 5 miles away from me) until today.  What a prick.  I think he talked about immigration and Medicare reform.

  by EMKennedyLucio on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:01:54 PM PDT

•  Love your diary...

  I find it a worthy follow-up to Serephin's Idaho-based diary of a few days ago, "Mr. President, Get Out Of My State".

  These things should be written every time he goes someplace with his traveling circus, rather than doing the job he's supposed to be doing, where he should be doing it.  

  by Donna in Rome on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:05:33 PM PDT

•  Bravo, Left

  Why the hell is he in the US for that matter?  

  by xanthe on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:15:34 PM PDT