Bush's approval down? Pull out the fear card.

[BobcatJH]

Bad news for Bush ...

Mr. Bush's overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he's handling his job.

... administration plays the fear card:

Al-Qaida's Iraq-based faction considered trying to use student visas to get a dozen or more operatives into the United States to launch an attack, a ploy that had been successful for one of the hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed yesterday.

The plot appeared to be little more than an informal list of al-Qaida-affiliated operatives and initial plans that was found during a search of a militants' hide-out in Iraq early last year, shortly before al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab Zarqawi died in a U.S. airstrike, the official said.

An "informal" list that we've known about for quite some time, yet it was released when the president's poll numbers are in the dumper and on the eve of the State of the Union address? Interesting. And this president has the nerve to accuse others of acting "for political purposes".