Christmas Comes Early for Bush & Co?

What do you do when you're a Prez or V-Prez of a party taking lots of hits in the gut just months before an election? Well if you've just been informed about a plot to bomb US airplanes, the first thing you do is call the press and tell them . . . to warn folks not to fly? (nah) you call reporters and remind them that the Democrats are soft on terrorism. What did Cheney tell reporters when he'd learned about the plot and we hadn't yet?

He suggested that Democrats believe "that somehow we can retreat behind our oceans and not be actively engaged in this conflict and be safe here at home, which clearly we know we won't, we can't, be."

And other Republicans in power? Well, speaking anonymously, a couple could barely contain themselves. A Republican congressional aide told a reporter that "I'd rather be talking about this than all of the other things that Congress hasn't done well." And a White House official crowed that "Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big."

Not that anyone in the administration would use a terror plot to score political points.

And not that anyone in the administration would stop to point out that their blunders in Iraq have done more than just about anything else to help energize people to take up arms against the US, UK, etc., than anything else. Instead of focusing on Afghanistan and driving the Taliban / Al Queda into oblivion, the administration went hunting in Iraq and stirred up a hornet's nest.

Bush & Cheney, your chickens are coming home to roost, and unfortunately, their continuing to threaten the lives of innocent people.