Two days until the 9/11 anniversary...Where's Tom Ridge?

[JohnnyRingo]

Why no terror warning?

Russian school children executed, Indonesian terror atttacks, two Russian airliners crashed, more terrorist activity than we've seen in months, but no "terror alert". Where's the "increased chatter"?

We had one right after John Kerry announced his running mate.
We had another right after the Democratic convention, but nothing is allowed to be distract from the "post convention bounce" that GWB is riding this week.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0907-02.htm

excerpt:

Ridge gave the GOP had an alert-free Labor Day weekend to crow about the post-convention bounce that might have been Kerry's. Team Rove also floated its first notice of an election-timed "capture" of Osama bin Laden. As millions have predicted, after three years the Administration may have miraculously "tracked him down" just in time for the November vote.

So will the next Homeland hyperventilation come when there's an actual threat to the public safety? Or will it happen to coincide with, say, a presidential debate? A Kerry/Edwards bounce? Or a Bush faux pas?

[LuminousX]

1. Why not have a State of Homeland Security speech?

From the Democrats.

In the future, when we are out of power in the White House, we need to run a shadow cabinet.