How differently would the Swine Flu crisis be handled in the Bush White House?

[PinkTiger]

I was thinking today that it would have raised the threat level, and we would all be terrified.

[Taverner]

1. Swine WHAT?

[babylonsister]

2. What crisis?

:shrug:

[Uben]

3. They would have shipped the sick people to northern states

....let the virus spread until just before elections, then declare a national emergency, quarantine all voters to their homes until the vaccine was ready, which would of course be just after the elections. Is there any doubt? They politicized everything else, why not this? Rove would have seen it as an opportunity, being the sick fuck that he is.

[BadgerKid]

4. You're either with or against the Hawaiian flu.

*smirk*

[polichick]

5. They would have quarantined America's pigs...

Like this poor piggy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5288437/Swine-flu-Afghanistans-only-pig-quarantined.html

[rucky]

6. We would be carpet-bombing Mexico by now.

[Salviati]

9. Nope, we'd be bombing Venezuela...

[DebbieCDC]

7. I agree

Terra! Terra! Terra! "They" are attacking us with germ warfare! Go out and buy more duct tape and plastic sheeting! Terra Alert!

I think the media has way over-hyped this situation as it is, but if the junta had still been in DC I'd bet my last nickel that we'd be a full-scale terra alert.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Bush would have invaded Denmark and confiscated all their hams

[PinkTiger]

10. Want to add that I don't think there is a crisis.

I was just thinking that in the Bush/Cheney regime, the Swine Flu would have been utilized for propaganda reasons.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. "Pigs in a blanket" would be renamed "Freedom in a blanket"

and that would be it.

[LeftishBrit]

12. Probably they'd have declared pre-emptive war on pigs. Or perhaps horses or cows...

[BlooInBloo]

13. You mean the crisis of the new flu that's no more dangerous than the old flu?

[tritsofme]

14. About the same? Obama even complimented Bush in his last news conference

for leaving him in a position to handle the problem effectively.

So I guess in instances like these, the Bush administration "succeeded" only in the sense that government worked the way it should, instead of being a massive failure.

[liberalmuse]

15. They'd change the terror level to pink.

And tell us go shop for bacon.

[Orangepeel]

16. we might have bombed Venezuela

:shrug:

[MiniMe]

17. He would say "Go shopping"

[Optical.Catalyst]

18. The idiot son would have canceled American participation in the Baja 1000 race

Then he would have closed the boarder between Alaska and Candida just before he went on vacation to Crawford.