Tag: The Grandest Panjandrum

The Grandest Panjandrum lists why we have a right to be bitter:

A list of some things that have gone missing since January 2001

1. 4 airplanes;
2. 2 towers;
3. 3000+ American citizens;
4. 4000+ American soldiers;
5. Scores of thousands of Iraqis;
6. Osama Bin Laden;
7. Ayman Al Zawahiri;
8. WMD;
9. An historic Southern city;
10. An 85 year old investment brokerage;
11. One third of the value of a dollar;
12. $1.50/gallon gas;
13. $25 per barrel crude oil;
14. Half a million American family homes;
15. 3.2 million jobs;
16. Integrity, competence and personal accountability among our public servants;
17. The economy of the richest nation in history;
    Adding a few items of my own…
18. The balance and separation of powers between the presidency and the other branches;
19. The respect and goodwill of much of the world for America;
20. 8 years that could have been used to reverse climate change;
21. Britney Spears’s sanity (although I don’t think this one is Bush’s fault.)