See what I mean?

Tony Snow at yesterday's briefing re: Ned Lamont:

Take a look at the blogs today, they’re pretty hot. And the real question for the American people to ask themselves is, do you take the war on terror seriously? With all the developments around the world — and, if so, how do you fight it to win? There seems to be two approaches, and in the Connecticut race, one of the approaches is ignore the difficulties and walk away. Now, when the United States walked away, in the opinion of the Osama bin Laden in 1991, bin Laden drew from that the conclusion that Americans were weak and wouldn’t stay the course and that led to September 11th.

Nice, huh?
Not convinced?
Do you know about Karl Rove's whole theory that you should play your weakesses as strengths? And that you turn your opponent's strengths into weaknesses? (Think Kerry's war record)
Well their biggest weakness is this godammned war, and yet they've publicly admitted that they are planning to run on a war/terrorism/security platform.
Need more?
OK, howsabout The New York Times? Yesterday:

The attacks came in searing remarks from, among others, Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Vice President Dick Cheney, who went so far as to suggest that the ouster of Mr. Lieberman might encourage “al Qaeda types.”

“It’s an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party, to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy,’’ Mr. Cheney said in a telephone interview with news service reporters.

And then looky here! Here's Joe Lieberman in today's Times:

If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England,” Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. “It will strengthen them and they will strike again.

Wow, and who did we just hear offered Joementum help?
So you see why I feel like the hype over THE BIGGEST TERROR PLOT EVER is a little bit, well, interesting.

For the record, I believe there were some guys and they were planning something nefarious. But Bush gave the OK to raise the terror alert to red on airplanes (or whatever the fuck it is) yesterday. How do I know? Well the White House said so. Tony Snow at today's gaggle:
Q: But the President, himself, approved the red alert?
MR. SNOW: Correct. It was a recommendation by the Homeland Security Council, by Secretary Chertoff and others.
Q: When did he approve it?
MR. SNOW: Yesterday.

So Bush has just been hanging out knowing that THE BIGGEST TERROR PLOT EVER was about to go down? An imminent threat? And Tony Blair, who had been talking to Bush and obviously knew as much as he did or more, was on vacation in the Caribbean. The same Tony Blair who delayed that same vacation last week to try and work out some more steps in the Israel/Lebanon negotiations. But for this he wasn't worried about being on vacation. But BushCo had a nice day to get the lovely messages above out.

And if I can't brink some fucking water on a fucking plane anymore, I'm fucking going postal. No fucking eyedrops? They're talking about these new fucking rules as permanent. This will not stand, people.

Oh and ps, I'm waching Keith Olberman and he's saying the exact same thing, which is cool but dammit! I thought of this myself.