The Boy Who Cried Wolf
During the run-up to the 2004 election, color-coded terror alerts - and with them, breathless press conferences where administration officials claimed to have thwarted yet another unspeakable plot - were a fixture on the national scene.
And the more cynical among us noticed that often, these events were timed to coincide with a dip in Bush's poll numbers, or to mitigate a bump in Kerry's (right after his acceptance speech, when Edwards joined the ticket, and so on).
Of course, the more cynical among us were proven right when Tom Ridge (then, the former Homeland Security Chief) gave an interview last year, and said those alerts came at the direct mandate of the White House, and his organization often did not even know about them until they were announced.
Now, it's two years later. The Republicans are in danger of losing control of both the Senate and the House. I'm surprised it took them this long, but here we go again.
Didn't they ever read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf?" How the hell are we supposed to believe them the time that something really is about to happen?
During the run-up to the 2004 election, color-coded terror alerts - and with them, breathless press conferences where administration officials claimed to have thwarted yet another unspeakable plot - were a fixture on the national scene.
And the more cynical among us noticed that often, these events were timed to coincide with a dip in Bush's poll numbers, or to mitigate a bump in Kerry's (right after his acceptance speech, when Edwards joined the ticket, and so on).
Of course, the more cynical among us were proven right when Tom Ridge (then, the former Homeland Security Chief) gave an interview last year, and said those alerts came at the direct mandate of the White House, and his organization often did not even know about them until they were announced.
Now, it's two years later. The Republicans are in danger of losing control of both the Senate and the House. I'm surprised it took them this long, but here we go again.
Didn't they ever read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf?" How the hell are we supposed to believe them the time that something really is about to happen?
posted by isaacjosephson at 12:03 PM
1 Comments:
hey isaac! whats yer new email address? i am flying out to philadelphia tomorrow--work is sending me out for a week to do some field service on our product--thought i may be able to see you, and meet sarah and asher. probably not, as you are on a midwest tour--tell yer parents i said hello.
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