Trying to beat the traffic?
Matt Yglesias asks a mighty good question:
But if that's all correct, then why did Katrina send him scrambling back to DC? Cutting a vacation short due to a crisis situation makes sense, of course, only if you aren't, in fact, able to do your job properly from your vacation home. That, in turn, would make perfect sense if before Katrina the country was just in an autopilot sort of situation but that was hardly the case. Instead, we were in the midst of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the former country in particular was at a rather key political juncture. Staying in Texas throughout that is fine if the job can be done from Texas. But if it can, why come back now?
But if that's all correct, then why did Katrina send him scrambling back to DC? Cutting a vacation short due to a crisis situation makes sense, of course, only if you aren't, in fact, able to do your job properly from your vacation home. That, in turn, would make perfect sense if before Katrina the country was just in an autopilot sort of situation but that was hardly the case. Instead, we were in the midst of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the former country in particular was at a rather key political juncture. Staying in Texas throughout that is fine if the job can be done from Texas. But if it can, why come back now?
posted by Jmac at 3:57 PM
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What, what is the answer supposed to be? Yglesias obviously has something in mind, so why doesn't he just come out and say it?
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