From the current issue of the Austin Chronicle. Every week they have a quote of the week. This is this week's.
"The House passed (by one vote) a bill to eliminate barriers between banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies. This sets up financial holding companies that can offer all three types of services simultaneously. The most obvious risk is that a blunder in the insurance or brokerage end of the business could bring down a bank, putting insured deposits at risk. The taxpayers, of course, then wind up with the tab, as we did with the savings and loan mess."
– Molly Ivins, soothsaying in her Sept. 23, 1998 column
I really miss Molly Ivins.
Gosh too bad no one saw this coming. It just came out of no where. How could we know that s**t would hit the fan? How could we know that Bin Laden would attack America? How could we know that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction?
Maybe someday when we look up "short-sighted" or "reckless" in the dictionary, they'll just have a picture of Bush.