I think people are reacting to this surfacing just after the Ridge announcement of a threat to elections that was entirely vague, apparently not serious enough to change the "emergency color code", and seemingly timed to grab headlines after the Democractic VP candidate choice. Since then, members of Congress who have been briefed on the latest intelligence estimates have said that there is no new activity or planning being reported that would have justified this annoucnement by Ridge. The announcement, supposedly, prompted Soaries, a Bush appointee to a subpanel of the Federal Elections Commission which exists only to oversee federal finaincing of elections and has no purview over the actual running of elections, to suggest that his group be given authority to postpone elections.
It's all too convenient. It's incredibly suspicious. Bush and Cheney have shown themselves time and time again to be fixated only on gaining their own ends, no matter what it takes. In another adminsitration, I might look on this as sensible contingency planning; in this one, it just seems an obvious trial baloon to see how much resistance there would be to an administrative coup.
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:17 pm (UTC)It's all too convenient. It's incredibly suspicious. Bush and Cheney have shown themselves time and time again to be fixated only on gaining their own ends, no matter what it takes. In another adminsitration, I might look on this as sensible contingency planning; in this one, it just seems an obvious trial baloon to see how much resistance there would be to an administrative coup.