What a coincidence! Just as President Obama's approval rating is starting to fall and both health care reform and cap & trade are being exposed as the monumental tax increases they are, Attorney General Eric Holder is considering a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation practices used on suspected terrorists. (source) Mr. Obama has repeatedly spoken against such an investigation but suddenly it's being considered just when the media and the public are starting to turn against the administration's policies.

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Meanwhile, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) says Congress should investigate whether former Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush administration ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program. (source) Another case of questionable timing as the Nancy Pelosi/Leon Panetta disagreement heats up.

Just as they have with economic issues, Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration seem to drag out old accusations against the Bush administration whenever their own incompetence and mistakes are filling the front pages across the country. We the people are expected to take the bait and be distracted by all the noise while the administration conspires with the legislature to "remake America".

Some Republicans have pointed out the danger of this very political move by the left. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) suggested the fallout from embarking on a criminal investigation would provide a recruiting tool to terrorists. (source) Senator Judd Gregg (D-New Hampshire) says Democrats' efforts to review President George W. Bush's practices would harm the United States in the long run. He says the country is fighting a "war of intelligence" that would be damaged if the tactics were disclosed. (source)

But perhaps the only argument that could persuade the Democrats to stop the distracting witch hunt is that of Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) who said that if Attorney General Eric Holder decides to appoint a prosecutor to probe Bush-era decisions, he should go farther back. Alexander says the investigation should go back into the 1990s, when Holder was a senior Justice Department official under President Bill Clinton. (source)

It might not seem like such a good idea if they're forced to provide the American people with a stark comparison between what the Bush administration did to keep our country safe and what the Clinton administration did to point our country toward September 11, 2001.