Look at the Presence of the Bush Women in NYC Today One of Two Ways

The first way is that the government really is just playing games with the terror alert codes (which will cost New York City tens of millions of dollars a week and will last at least until after the GOP convention) as some have predicted they would. Considered that way, why not send Laura, Barbara and Jenna Bush up to thank workers (the expensively paid ones) for showing up?

The second way is that in the Bush Administration, women are pretty much just "pretty" symbols anyway. If you've got to sacrifice anyone, well, it's not like those twins will become president anyway, and Laura you could replace with a B movie mommy actress.