I have a big wait-and-see attitude toward the President’s comments tonight. But I must say that if it weren’t for the war on terrorism, I’d be a bit at a loss these days to say something nice about him given his performance of the last six months. Yes, yes, tax cuts: good. And a few other things: Good. But, I’m really fighting this feeling that when he said earlier this week that whenever someone’s “hurting,” the “government has to move”, he essentially jumped the shark. Maybe I’m just in a down mood about politics generally, but every day it seems more and more like the President is moving the Republican Party to the kissy-huggy liberal center at the behest of Rovian imperatives. I’ll tell you, if he goes all Souter when/if there’s a Supreme Court vacancy, I don’t what I’ll do. Ramesh noted a while back that when the Democrats move left, so does the GOP because the Center gets abandoned. It seems to me that’s exactly what’s happening and it just bums me out.