I figure it was the Dems giving Arnie a "welcome to Cali" party. Or maybe Rush snuck out of rehab for a smoke and "ooops..." But a terrorist plot, now THATS a longshot.
One question on this concern over the Patriot Act. What's your alternative? I'm not personally a big fan of losing our personal freedoms, but in comparisons to the Democrats reaction to the last attack on US soil (internment camps), this was tame. It's not like Tom Ridge made this decision on his own, I think it was congress that passed it (democratic majority at the time if I remember correctly).
But aside from all that, what was a better alternative? How do you protect 236,000,000 people in a country with open borders where personal freedom is paramount? What would YOU have done? I don't have an outstanding alternative.
To be honest, I am more concerned by the fact that I can't have a smoke in a bar almost anywhere anymore. In CA you can't buy a rifle because somebody determined that it qualifies as "an assault rifle", yet cow feces in a publicly funded museum qualifies as "art". I can't swap out a catalitc converter or unplug an airbag that might kill me, but an illegal alien gets free college. And a license. I have the freedom of speech right up until it "offends" somebody, unless I am a liberal and then EVERYTHING I say is okay and patriotic, even if its anti-American.
Pete