Wednesday, August 31, 2005

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.

1 comments:

Mia said...

Ick. I think you pretty much got it all right. In fact here's #5...

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