**I support the President over national security but am deeply troubled by moral weakness on sanctity of life issues from Terri Schiavo to this one.**
Terri Schiavo? Um...didn't he wake up in the middle of the night to sign a bill to try to stop them from letting them kill her? What'd you want him to do? Kidnap her?
He signed a bill in the middle of the night and went back to sleep. I had a lot of trouble sleeping while she slowly died. I paid a price even at my job for being so concerned about her fate.
The legislation in retrospect was symbolic with the courts dictating the outcome regardless of what it said. The almost unanimous judicial clampdown that followed its passage and ignored its words showed how it was a ruse to make politicians look good.
The judiciary still has power to do what it wants and dictate on a variety of issues including life ones.
As for President Bush I think he's been taking a few black eyes since March 31,2005. He's looking a public opinion and talking about the "good, decent people" who want to run away in Iraq. He's also playing the middle on the Plan B issue.
I know how the big politicos operate. I have experience with one man who is in leadership in my own county. They play the abortion issue on one side "respect for life" and the "birth control" issue on the other.
These issues are polled and focus grouped with public opinion pointing in different directions among Republican and "moderate" voters. The President plays to both with his pro-life and pro-Plan B positions.