The
Chicago Tribune reports that the USS Bataan is in the area, and not being used enough. There are open beds and idle sailors that could be pressed into action.
The MSM needs to refrain from using the photo ops of our Great Leader, because they are just visual lies designed to make him seem with-it and productive.
Frank Rich, not surprisingly, gets it right:
As always, the president's first priority, the one that sped him from Crawford toward California, was saving himself: he had to combat the flood of record-low poll numbers that was as uncontrollable as the surging of Lake Pontchartrain. It was time, therefore, for another disingenuous pep talk, in which he would exploit the cataclysm that defined his first term, 9/11, even at the price of failing to recognize the emerging fiasco likely to engulf Term 2.