At the time, Vallejo was in a fiscal tailspin with the mortgage debacle, which hit cities in California unusually hard.
The Bristol-Levi debacle, which might be a minor sideshow for another politician, looms larger for a Mama Grizzly.
But it seems clear that any reprise of the Ramat Shlomo debacle, which infuriated Obama, would meet American criteria.
The debacle which followed showed that her confidence was not justified, and that her political judgment could be suspect.
Elections in Florida have attracted particular scrutiny since the 2000 debacle which delivered George Bush into power.
These swaps were at the heart of the London Whale trading debacle, which lost $6bn for JP Morgan Chase.
By that, he meant the sewer debacle, which has not helped the county's credibility with the Legislature.
Their first big salvo was the debt ceiling debacle, which resulted in the lowering of the credit rating for the United States.
However, he had not anticipated the collapse of the junk-bond market or the savings-and-loan debacle, which caused credit to dry up.
The debacle, which played out on the evening of Halloween, prompted federal authorities to immediately bear down on the brokerage firm and the broader futures trading industry.
For Major League Baseball, though, anything short of last year's debacle, which this game hardly was, had to be considered a boffo success.
