Bush's Panic Button

Whenever Bush gets into political trouble, it seems the terrorists alerts go up a notch, more money is poured into the White House p.r. machine and Bush's critics at home are declared unpatriotic by Bush's legions. S.W. Anderson of Oh!pinion:

But, as Olbermann alludes, you don’t have to look very hard to detect a pattern here. Whenever Bush & Co. is in especially big trouble, news of some mysterious, nebulous new terrorist threat or danger surfaces. Happens every time.

To make the current scare story especially suspect on these grounds comes follow-up news — local to Texas because we’re sure not seeing it from the rest of the major media — that the big phone purchase from a Midland, Texas, Wal-Mart has been investigated and found to have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorists or terrorism.

Will Americans ever catch on to the lying, distortions and distractions being used by the right-wing Republicans in power to manipulate their impressions and opinions?

Americans only begin to pay attention when Bush's nonsense hits close to home. His Social Security debacle is one example. And Hurricane Katrina is another. There are signs that a number of economic issues aren't being addressed. If the economy begins to buckle, Americans may finally take the blinders off.