Ooops.

WASHINGTON - Three weeks before London's bus and subway bombings, a Senate committee voted to slash spending on mass transit security in the United States, a decision sure to be reversed when Congress returns next week.

At a minimum, the Senate will restore the $50 million cut, G. William Hoagland, top budget aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Friday.

There is pressure for a lot more, though adding to rail and transit security programs means cutting elsewhere in the Homeland Security Department's $32 billion budget for next year. That places severe limits on what Congress can do — at least if it plays by its budget rules.

Those would be the budget rules that say they not only can't have the strength to suggest actually raising taxes to pay to defend the country, but they can't even discuss asking the richest in this country (who stastistics show are doing quite well, thank you) to cope with the tax rates they were paying in the 90s. Not even temporarily, like say, for the duration of the war on terror.

Sadly, the administration has maxed out its credit card with its oh-so-clever Homeland Security strategy of providing the terrorists displaced from Afghanistan with a nifty new-and-improved training ground in Iraq, because it's better to have them "there" than "here". (Which works well if you define "here" as the ranch, and not, say, "the G8 nations.") This means cutting back on money to be spent on things in the US, but, since there is no rail or transit to the ranch, why not?

How cunning of those 'terrists' to attack in just the way that would make our government look bad.