Broken Hallelujah

Thanks for the Heads-Up, Guys. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ridge, Mueller. Is there anyone who has not warned us of Armageddon over the past few weeks? As far as I can tell, the only slacker in this White House game of Wag the Dog is Spot.


You don't have to be a cynic to believe that the point of the warnings is not to save lives so much as to save political hides. After all, we can't go about our daily business much differently just because of these dire pronouncements. Nor have they budged the Homeland Security Office's color-coded "threat level" from its weaselly yellow. What this orchestrated chorus can do is guarantee that we duly credit the Bush administration for giving us a heads-up should disaster strike between now and Election Day 2004.