Surveying the decline of the airline industry...what we have now is a complete mess - a system that bankrupts carriers, embitters workers and infuriates the traveling public. But hold off on airlines for a moment and ponder his larger point.-Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on the government's failure to keep our domestic airlines from drowning.
Take any big issue that matters to the public...and what you see is a failure of government.
The failure of the airline industry and how to best address it is going to be one of the next president's top domestic problems. Things can't continue as they are without a total collapse of the industry. And when the airlines collapse, the American economy - so dependent on air travel - will collapse with it.
For a president who wants to be remembered for how he handled 9/11, President Bush has been a complete and absolute failure on the two issues that were most affected by those attacks: energy and the airlines. That the Bush administration has turned a blind eye to these dire problems will, when they finally (FINALLY) leave office, be among the numerous absoulte failures for which they will be remembered.
Say it with me: The. Worst. President. Ever.
