BushCo Scare Tactics Aren't Working This Time

From U.S. News:

White House strategists are disappointed that the arrest of alleged terrorist plotters in the United Kingdom hasn't increased President Bush's job-approval ratings very much.

The expectation was that Bush might benefit from the highly publicized arrests as evidence that his tough approach to fighting terrorism, in conjunction with U.S. allies, was paying off.

But polls so far show that while Bush is benefiting from the perception that he is a strong leader in fighting terrorism, it hasn't resulted in higher approval rates for his overall job performance. "We need a sustained period of good news to boost the numbers," says a key Republican strategist.

I can certainly understand why the Bush Regime's strategist are disappointed. After all, they spent a lot of effort putting pressure on Britain to speed things along on its terror investigation so that Bush could use the arrests to scare Americans. I know I've said this before, but wouldn't it be great if BushCo spent the same amount of effort actually going after terrorists as it spends trying to politicize the War On Terror?

But I think one of the reasons Bush isn't able to scare his way into higher approval ratings is because the Corporate Media are finally starting to report BushCo's "Scare The Hell Out Of America" tactic as a story in itself.

Back in 2002 and 2004, the Mainstream Media simply aided and abetted Bush on all this crap. Now networks like CNN are showing America the "man behind the curtain" so to speak and are actually running pieces on how Bush has used fear in the past and continues to use it now as a political tool. I'm encouraged by this type of reporting.