MR. SAFIRE: They're going to be needed, I think, next year. And I think in the next month or two you'll see a turnaround and a swing of the pendulum. I hope next week the president really does address a crisis that may be developing in bird flu. And that suddenly is more important than all of this. I would like...Yeah, that's Bill Safire coming weirdly close to hoping for a pandemic because Bush is in trouble.
