In case you needed a reminder of how fortunate we are to be rid of Team Bush, said Rod Dreher in BeliefNet, former Bush Homeland Security secretary in an upcoming book admits that he was pressured into raising the terrorism threat level in 2004 to help Dubya get reelected. "To be fair, this is being widely denied by the ex-Bushies. Who you gonna believe?"
Certainly not Tom Ridge, said conservative commentator Michelle Malkin in her blog. Ridge himself told The New York Times he "suspected" there was an effort to influence the vote, but had no evidence. So now he's "fudging" to hype his soon-to-be-released book -- "what a weasel."
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