What is the next big thing that Bush and/or his administration is going to fail to see coming?
He failed to prepare for 9/11. He failed to prepare for the Iraq insurgency. He failed to prepare for Hurricane Katrina. He failed to prepare for gas prices going up, unemployment staying high, the recession and slow recovery of the last few years, and global warming. He certainly didn’t expect Cindy Sheehan, and he certainly didn’t prepare for what to do if his poll numbers tanked as badly as they did. Heck, this is the guy famous for trading away Sammy Sosa.
So what’s next?
Avian flu? Indictments from Plamegate hitting unexpected people and places? Oil cutoff from Venezuela? Dollar cratering? Mad cow disease in Montana? Housing bubble popping? Somebody involved in the 2004 election turning state’s evidence? Sabotage of US refineries? Earthquake in California?
What’s the next thing Bush skipped over so he could clear brush and strum guitar that will come back to bite him on the ass?
Leave your ideas in comments. First one to happen gets– well, I’ll come up with something.
I’m wondering why you’ve failed to pull your head out of your ass yet. Keep peddling the bullshit, Glenn….it only makes you look more foolish.
Seriously, what happened? You used to be partisan, sure, no problem there, but lately…
I mean, the relative paucity of comments should tell you something.
Actually, if you want to make this post somewhat useful(personally, I would have taken the high road and listed ways in which readers could help the victims but to each his own) why not list, in order of imporatnce, where we should be spending money to prevent the next disaster? Keeping in mind that we don’t have unlimited resources and every dime spent in one place is a dime not available somewhere else. Even if we pull out of iraq and raise taxes sky high we won’t have enough money to prepeare for every contingency (and, Glenn tot the contrary, some things are beyond the ability of even a president to fix or prevent. Earthquake in California? Uh, hello? Was the Northridge earthquake in 1994 in any way shape or form Bill Clinton’s fault?).
Me, I’d be preparing for the next flu pandemic, even though the last president to do so (Ford) enede up with egg on his face wg=hen the Swine Flu Epidemic failed to materialize. Unlike the other major forces of nature like earthquakes and hurricanes, a pandemic has the potential to be controlled– a Mercalli Scale 12 Earthquake will reduce San Francisco to sand even if the president happens to be someone Glenn likes.
Additionally, building the infrastructure to locate, isolate and produce mass quantities of anti-viral drugs and vaccines could have a double benefit of having an anti-terrorist value should the pathogen be man made.
Diseases are the only kinds of natural disaters we have had any luck in controlling so we might as well stick to what we are good at.
I think that the next diasters likely to hit are:
1. Escalation of violence in Iraq
2. Escalation of violence in Israel
3. Escalation of violence in Sudan
4. Escalation of violence Afghanistan
5. More nuke troubles with Iran and North Korea
6. Bill eats all of my damn sushi
I’d love to be wrong about those
BTW Glenn, though I don’t often post, I agree with most of your blog entries. I’m praying to the Flying Spaghetti monster for you.
Oh come on Bill. You’re arguing with people who hate Bush so much they longer have to even pretend to be lucid in their claims.
What was that? I couldn’t hear you, I was too busy EATING ALL OF JON’S SUSHI! Mu–hu-ha-ha-ha!!! (simulated evil laughter)
Sorry, Bill, but perhaps you failed to read the reports of how the BUSH administration has underfunded a number of hurricane-preparedness projects for the New Orleans area in the past couple of years, projects mostly intended to strengthen the levees.
I will guarantee you that if it had turned out that the Clinton administration had cut funding for earthquake preparedness programs before the Northridge quake, then yes, there would have been all sorts of hell breaking loose. Of course, the real difference is that now the Republicans are in FULL charge of the pursestrings and the only damned thing they care to do is cut taxes for the wealthy–to hell with programs that might improve the country’s infrastructure.
As for EClark, perhaps if he got his head out of Dubya’s ass and actually looked at how the Republicans have royally screwed over anybody and everybody who can’t buy access to them, then maybe–just maybe–he’d get a damn clue about where Dubya’s REAL priorities lie. (Dubya’s handlers claimed that his “vacation” was little different from his being at the White House–that Crawford is wired to the world and that there’s nothing that Dubya can’t do at Crawford that he can’t do in DC. Yet, he somehow found the time to fly to DC–not the devastated New Orleans, a far cry from his chopper flight over South Florida during last year’s election hurricane photo ops–to let everyone know it’s going to take years to recover. Yee-haw!)