Regarding effective fighting of terrorists, Pat Fitzgerald's got his grand jury back scoping on Rove. Who has threatened to finger Cheney. (Who already looks a little hinky, as his right hand man is the first indictment.) And Novak flat out said that Bush knew all along about the Plame outing. And it looks very much like Mike Scanlon's singing his heart out re Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff, and Safavian's already caved, turned State's witness. After Safavian, Ralph Reed. After Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist. That's how you fight terror. You fight terror the way you unravel a cheap sweater, or a corrupt administration. You find a loose thread, and you puuuuuuuuullll it, nice and slow, so you don't break it. Pretty soon, all you've got left is something for your cat to play with.

And then the rest of us can go about the business of trying to put this country back together again. Cleaning up the mess your boys are making.