Beware of upcoming terror alerts

With all of the recent negative news stories coming out about the Bush admininstration, americans should be prepared for an increase in the terror alert level. It always seems when there is a negative story out there about President Bush or his administration that may have legs that President Bush plays the terror card. We've seen evidence of this just last week when the President announced that a planned Al Qaeda attack in LA had been thwarted. Of course his announcement occurred on the heels of increased criticism from both sides of the aisle over the NSA warrantless spying program. We later learned that the warrantless spying program had nothing to do with thwarting that attack and even worse for President Bush was the fact that he didn't even bother to notify the mayor of LA about the planned attack.

This past weekend we find out that Cheney accidentally shot a guy that he was hunting with. To make things worse for Cheney, the story wasn't reported for 18 hours later and only then because a reporter questioned the owner of the land they were hunting on. There is even another much more politically devastating news story coming out this week in the form of the upcoming House report on the Katrina failures. That report is supposed to be highly critical of the Bush administration's handling of hurricane Katrina. An increase in the terror alert or perhaps another announcement saying that an Al Qaeda attack was thwarted would be just the thing to take the focus off of all of Bush's failures and put in on something he views as a winner for him, protecting americans. It's worked for him many times in the past and until it stops being advantageous for him to use 911 as a political tool he'll continue to do so.