I don't know why they're not just killing us in our sleep, it'd be the perfect time...

Atrios had this over the weekend, but I have to second him and agree that no public official should ever say anything even close to this:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, warning of a potential global outbreak of the flu and health-related terror attacks. "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," he said.

Thanks for leaving without fixing that at all, by the way. Appreciate that.

It's fucking amazing. The Bush Administration presents these problems as if they're immutable laws of the universe, rather than bad policies which they have the power to change by virtue of, you know, being in power. It was the same thing with Bush on the stump saying "The rich get out of paying taxes, so you can't tax the rich," as if we can't enact tougher IRS laws to ensure the payment is made. Why would you say that poisoning the food supply is easy to do, when you've been in charge of the department whose job it is (in part) to disallow that? And, why would you give Al Qaeda any ideas? Any other surefire killing methods you want to hand over to them?