The fear card....

....will it work again?

If it does the American people are simply too stupid for Democracy. First we have this: Bush says British terror threat may not be over

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush cautioned on Saturday the threat from a plot to detonate liquid explosives on commercial flights may not have passed and denied Democratic charges he was trying to use the crisis for political gains in an election year.

Now that statement all by itself is absurd, but then we have this: Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved

WASHINGTON - While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.

Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of steps by the Homeland Security Department that has left lawmakers and some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.

So lets get this straight, the administration that is trying to get all the political mileage it can out of terror threats is trying to cut the money that would actually protect the American people. What can I say?