Hasn't St. Louis Suffered Enough?

I mean it's good to see the Bush Administration do the right (and by that, I mean correct) thing for once, but why should St. Louis suffer? After the Cardinals and now the Rams, a Cheney visit seems like piling on.

According to Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the NY Times:

It was not quite 2:30 a.m. in Washington on Tuesday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California asked President Bush to declare an emergency because of the wildfires raging in his state. An hour or so later, the request -- pre-approved by Mr. Bush before he left the Oval Office on Monday evening -- was granted.

By the time most Californians awoke on Tuesday, the Pentagon had sent helicopters and troops to California and the homeland security secretary and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were on their way. By Tuesday evening, the White House announced that Mr. Bush himself would go on Thursday. He canceled a trip to St. Louis, planning to send Vice President Dick Cheney instead.