Bush caves again. After a brilliant first term, he is setting himself up for a legacy as a very tepid and mediocre President.
What else is new! He should have crushed that ungrateful prick!
IMO you just may be wrong with your assumptions.
President Bush, as often said, is playing CHESS and the SCOTUS, MSM, Democrats, Specter, et al are playing CHECKERS.
Why? If, G*d forbid, we have another terrorist attack on this country, the Democrats, SCOTUS, Specter, MSM, et al will look like the "weak on terror" fools they really are.
President Bush is doing everything he can to protect the citizens of this country and is being undermined by every liberal and some conservatives. The SCOTUS decision to grant Geneva Convention status to terrorists was the most blatant support of terrorism in this century. This decision will come back to bite the US in the butt and GWB will probably say, "I could have told you so".
If he doesn't, he should.