Has US ever before ever had such a wilfully anti-expert, ill-prepared admin to deal with a crisis?

[bobbieinok]

[we can do it]

1. Not that I can think of.

[BigmanPigman]

2. No.

No, no, no. Not this bad...ever!

[empedocles]

3. . . . add, 'carelessly destructive' to you list

[salin]

4. I don't think it was willful ignorance - rather misguided theory - but Hoover was ill-prepared...

for the Great Depression. Different ... but the damage of kicking the can on policies that were misguided were dramatic and long lasting.

[defacto7]

5. Never

[Jim__]

6. We wouldn't still be here if we had!

[Strelnikov_]

7. I will take NO for $1,000,000,000,000 n/t

[abqtommy]

8. The W. administration comes to mind and the "rationale" driving the invasion of Iraq.

And I also remember the Gulf of Tonquin resolution that provided for launching full-scale war in Vietnam. Just to name a few... But it's way past time to normalize any of this. It's way past time to
impose accountability.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Bush and "Heckuva Job, Brownie" with Katrina.

[uponit7771]

10. No, Obama admin contained swine flue and 13,000 people still died through 09 - 10. Just think ...

... about that, the people who had more than half a brain and 13,000 people still died.