Hey, Dick! You're late!

Usually they don't wait this long before screaming "Terrorists are coming to eat your children!"

Al Qaeda is still "very active" recruiting and seeking to attack the United States, although it has been hurt since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday.

"The enemy that appeared on 9/11 is wounded and off-balance, and on the run -- yet still very active, still seeking recruits, and still trying to find ways to hit us," said Cheney, who reviews intelligence on threats daily.

"As months and years pass, they are hoping that our country will grow complacent, and get lazy, and forget our responsibilities," he said in a speech to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, according to a text released in Washington.

"And it's our job, ladies and gentlemen, to make sure the United States of America never lets down its guard."

No one wants the Administration's Social Security program, even Republicans think that Raving John Bolton isn't the right guy for the U.N., oil prices are through the roof, Iraq is a fucking mess, and even Laura Bush is getting restless. So what do they always do? Play the terrorism card. I suspect Cheney is working on the next attack even as we speak.