Foiled attack or Bush smoking crack?

Yesterday the President specifically referred to a foiled terrorist plot to fly an airplane into a building in LA. Bush said four Southeast Asians who met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in October 2001 were taught how to use shoe bombs to blow open a cockpit door and steer a plane into the Library Tower, the tallest building on the West Coast. The four were captured by Asian authorities before they could execute the plan, he said.

The Administration is claiming that Bush's mention of the foiled attack had nothing to do with Congressional hearings questioning the legitimacy of warrantless wiretaps, but smart people (or skeptics as they're sometimes called) know better. Further, intelligence officials have played down the significance of the failed attack. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of this bullshit. It is the government's job to prevent terrorist attacks. You don't get to take a dump on the Constitution because some Asian crackpots wanted to blow up LA. Security does not have to come at the expense of civil rights and I'm not going to give the Administration kudos for doing what they're supposed to be doing...preventing terrorist attacks. Additionally, it's not like we're not paying billions of dollars to fight terrorism so it's about damn time that they can highlight a vicotry in the war on terror.

In lighter news, Britney Spears is an idiot.

But Kevin Federline is a bigger idiot. Please go to his myspace profile and listen to his song. It's Wongette's favorite.

Does anyone else think that the surfer kid Johnny deserved to die?