re: #113 sagehen

As some ex-Bushies told me in late 2005 (explaining why they intended to vote Dem in the 2006 midterms)…

yeah, sure, he didn’t cause the hurricane. And maybe his TV was out so he couldn’t even predict it.

But if Al Qaeda had blown those levees instead of a weather event, would his response have been equally incompetent? All that Homeland Security money, and now we know if there’s an emergency he’ll leave us to die.

The one thing that is probably true: the Bush response to the pandemic would have been serious and he would likely have intervened early before it left China. He gave a thoughtful speech and his staff was concerned about the possibility