Cuckoo's Nest, Pt.2: No Fetus Left Behind

George W. Bush may be in trouble with his employer again, so it might be worthwhile to extend my last entry's analysis of his potential avian flu response.

President Bush’s first term was defined by 9/11 and his bold response to it, his vow to track down the terrorists wherever they were and do them in, to make sure the America (and he) would never again be caught unaware by anti-freedom America-hating killers sneaking in our back door. The pre-emptive strike against Saddam Hussein and Iraq was a no-brainer for him, 9/11 being a warning to him (and message from Him) that all was not well and that he had to go well beyond rooting out the thugs who actually carried out the attacks. Even if Saddam Hussein hadn’t been involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it wasn’t for lack of desire.

Right now, there is a significant and vocal group of anti-abortion Republican politicians suggesting that his nomination of Harriet E. Miers is a betrayal of 30 to 40 years of hard work by the very people who elected him as an opponent of Roe v. Wade. An opportunity to put a bullet behind the ear of the baby-killing judicial decision was handed to him, and he shied away. An extraordinary failure to fulfill his mission as God’s President would weigh very heavily on him if the criticism became more vocal at the grass-roots level and he came face-to-face with angry Christians carrying placards calling his faith into question.

If Ms. Miers passes the confirmation process but dissatisfies the Right-to-Lifers to the degree that they start pulling their support, be prepared for Bush’s characteristic overcorrection. He does not want his legacy to be that he failed to protect Americans from terrorists, incompetent bureaucrats, and murderers of the unborn.

That whole "the Education President" image he had initially wanted wasn't working out anyhow. Educating the underclasses in math and reading could just deliver them into the hands of Empirical Science and Satan, and he certainly doesn't want to be remembered for THAT.