You mean he's not trying to blow us all up after all?

U.S. Can’t Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says - New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — Congress and the American public must accept that the government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants to avoid fulfilling Al Qaeda’s goal of bankrupting the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Tuesday.

Hard to know which ass to cover sometimes, I guess.

Rove must have sent a memo around, everybody figure out how to blame your problems on bin Laden. I fully expect to hear now, any day, he's behind the drought in the Midwest too. And diabetes. Not to mention the minimum wage.