I can see them sitting around the Oval Office.
"Well, Karl, things ain't looking too good. Brownie screwed up in Louisiana. The @#$% Iraqis are killing my poll numbers. The market's down a couple of hundred points. No one's buying my Social Security plan. People are going ape over the price of gas. We gotta do something."
"We don't actually have to do something which will really mean that the public will have to sacrifice or will cause company's profits to sink. We have to look presidential. And after screwing up in Louisiana, we've got to show that we're doing something about a real hazard. Like, we're actually planning well and implementing well.
What about this bird flu noise? We screwed up in getting flu vaccine last year. How would it look if we did something about bird flu? Heck, one scientist predicted 150,000,000 people might die if the thing got out of hand and the flu passed from bird to person to person.
I bet, if we talked about this imminent danger and actually met with some drug companies and paid them off to produce a vaccine, our poll numbers will jump. People forget easily. We'll start issuing press releases, pay off media personalities to talk up the problem - oops, paying media people is now out in public, so we better not do that -, have you make a major speech or two about it. You know the usual routine of talking, but not acting."
"Great ideas as usual, Karl. Get Leavitt in here."
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...and while we're at it you can give a major speech on the war in Iraq - you know, fighting terrorism at its source and all that....and we'll arrange a terrorism scare somewhere.....New York....the subway, just like London....that'll sound authentic... and throw in some possible squealers in Iraq - just to make the link - yes, that should do it. What do you think, George?
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