Yet Another Bush Failure

From Bush ends 5-day Middle East trip with little progress by Hannah Allam:

Bush, however, heads home to Washington with few, if any, concrete gains on his largely ceremonial tour, his second trip to the Middle East in four months. He failed to win Saudi help with rising oil prices and didn't make any breakthroughs on groundwork for a Palestinian state.

I wonder how many taxpayers dollars were used to pay for this trip? It probably would have been better if Bush had just stayed in Crawford and done nothing.