Hurricaine Predictions

I'm not a meteorologist, but nonetheless I have predictions about what happens next.

• Any criticism of the Bush administration for policies that arguably made the disaster worse -- cutting funds for disaster preparedness, gutting wetlands protection, parking the Louisiana National Guard in Iraq -- will be dismissed as political opportunism.
  
• Meanwhile, nonopportunistic Republicans will use the disaster as justification for drilling in ANWR because of the new petroleum crunch.
  
• Nonopportunistic Republicans will use the disaster as justification for lifting whatever logging restrictions have escaped the axe so far because we will need cheap lumber to rebuild.
  
• Nonopportunistic Republicans will use the disaster as justification for another tax cut since anything serves as justification for a tax cut.
  
• Some fundamentalist preacher somewhere will declare what God is punishing us for this time.
  
• No one will question whether we should rebuild in flood-prone areas since doing so would mean that the Hurricaine Has Won.
  
• President Bush will say that we should come together as a nation and make sacrifices to help rebuild, but the liberal community will anyway.
  

Check back to see how I did.