Paging Oliver Stone

OK - consider this my conspiracy theory - and if someone has already come up with it - great minds.

The Patriot Act was up for renewal. Reasonable people said, hey, we really need to look at this, let's renew it for three months so we are not in a rush and can check it out after the holidays. Bush said NO INDEED. He also said we cannot go a moment with out it. He added that senators from New York, LA and Vegas will need to explain to their constituents why they filibustered the Act.

Is it just me or would everyone avoid LA, NY and Vegas for a while? Should we expect another attack which will be blamed on the senators who allowed the Patriot Act to lapse? When, in reality, it's the President who allowed the act to lapse.

Please let me be wrong.