A convenient threat

Of course, we now know that Bush and Cheney knew about the "plot" on Sunday before the CT Primary

A convenient threat - The Boston Globe:

DICK CHENEY was certainly farsighted when he declared Wednesday that Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman would comfort ``Al Qaeda types.'

Voila! Only a day later, Al Qaeda was revealed as plotting to bring down 10 planes!

I thought that was a nice parody line -- until I picked up yesterday's Wall Street Journal. There, editorial page writer Daniel Henninger, in a column headed, ``Democrats Knifed Lieberman on Eve of Airliner Plot,' goes beyond parody.

Henninger writes, ``[G]etting on a US airliner, who would you rather have in the Senate formulating policy towards this threat -- Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman?'