Bush can't find enough suck-ups to fill the room

"Only a few hundred members showed up for the hastily organized event at a Washington hotel and empty chairs were removed from the back of the ballroom before Bush arrived."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120700224_2.html

See also: http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/08/bush-evite/

Has he run out of deluded groups of military members to speak in front of?