Well, over the weekend your prediction came true. The media blamed both Bush and Limbaugh.

Great grist for part of a yarn (in fact, I’ve got a novel on the back burner that can use a variation on this theme for a great scene as my hero wages political battles while he tries to get his ass-sets out of Dodge.)

Yes, “you can’t make this stuff up”, but life will do it for you.

One of my short stories (published in Alpha Dreams - available at AKW Books) worked around the relationship of FDR to one of his ancestors, a shipping magnate who smuggled cocaine in the China trade. Clavell’s book “Tai Pan” was based on that same China trade, but centered on an Englishman who was working the England - Turkey - China route.

Real life, present and past, is full of ideas. As you say, you just have to pay attention.