Sorry pokey, but there's actually a lot of truth to what Mark Steyn wrote. Bush has squandered some of the opportunites afforded him last winter. He has caved into pressure on other issues not mentioned by Steyn, too, i.e., CFR. And yes, he could have used the bully pulpit, at least a couple of times in the past year.....to an effective end.
I still think Bush is a great President......but he has let his arms be twisted too much by those with no morals and no concern for this country (i.e., little Tommy fufu, Kennedy the murderer, and Leaky Leahy).
Steyn has some good points, but he's not taking into account the one thing that must never be said publicly. The "loyal opposition" of the DemocRATic Party will work to see the United States defeated in this war, if they think it will help them regain power. The klintons don't care about anthrax or nukes, because they know the dead will continue to vote democRATic in the big cities anyway. A few thousand, or a few million, dead Americans mean nothing to them.
The RATs' job is to deny Bush everything on both the domestic and international front. That way, they can proclaim him a total failure in the 2004 election. And if they can win a RAT majority in the House in November, expect a bill of impeachment against Bush and Cheney. That would be followed by pressure to "do the right thing" and resign, which klinton never did.
The raghead tyrants and their armies of islamic terrorists are dangerous, but they ain't got nothin' on Bill and Hitlery. So Bush has to constantly watch this other enemy of the American people, too.