A convenient threat (Robert Kuttner)

[struggle4progress]

August 12, 2006

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 ...

We will face this story line between now and the November election, and beyond ...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08/12/a_convenient_threat/