The Audacity Of Stupidity

From a fairly spectacular article in the New York Times:

Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it’s a good thing he’s in charge.

“He said that if [the financial meltdown] was going to happen at all, he was glad it was happening under his presidency, because he had a good group of people in D.C. working for him,” Dru Van Steenberg, one of several small-business owners who met with Mr. Bush in San Antonio earlier this week. The president expressed the same sentiment, others said, during a similar private session in Chantilly, Va., the next day.

The inevitability of the financial meltdown was not certain and was in many ways exacerbated by the economic policies of this administration. Addressing the problem without also addressing the causes is akin to treating the symptom but not the disease. Worse still, it's akin to treating the symptom while not connecting it to the disease. We are seeing the same type of response from Palin on global warming.

Saturday, October 11, 2008