His people and his party

Baby's Four-Step Program for getting the mojo out of Tuck's dinner bowl includes sitting around, staring, reaching out with his paw and lunging.

"Most of all, Mr. Bush needs to reforge the broken links to the two sources of his power -- his people and his party," wrote Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal last week.  We saved his essay to the desktop, waiting for events to play out, and now they have. Henninger's "Four-Step Program" for GW to "get his mojo back" is looking pretty good about now:

• Withdraw Harriet, nominate Edith. Harriet Miers is the canary in the Bush mineshaft.

Done. Details to be worked out.

• Go to Baghdad. The Bush Doctrine, presented by Mr. Bush in September 2002, correctly defined the most pressing need of the post-Reagan era as the democratization of nations capable of acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Iraq is the only test of the Bush Doctrine . . . There are two crucial missions that only Bush boots on the ground in Iraq can accomplish: Rally America's GIs and rally the Iraqi people--those who have sacrificed most to make the Bush Doctrine succeed.

Interesting idea.  No word yet.

• Nail the Greenspan succession. Next to the Supreme Court, this is the last major appointment of Mr. Bush's presidency.

Done.  Details to be worked out.

• Embrace the sequester. By embracing the across-the-board spending sequester in the House before it disappears, Mr. Bush at a stroke would become the de facto leader of an effort that would sweep away the ill will of a spending record that for now dilutes his legacy.

On its way. Check out PorkBusters update.

As Fred Barnes told Brigitte Quinn of FoxNews this morning, "I think this may be the first step on the road to recovery for the President." Since we know next to nothing about any of it other than what we hear on the cables and read in the MSM and the blogosphere, we're going on gut instinct, and our gut tells us it's going to be okay.

Update:  Animals now boarding the Friday Ark at Modulator.

Update II: "Here's my guess why the President pulled Harriet," writes Henninger in his post-Miers-withdrawal column:

It was past midnight. In the wee a.m. hours Wednesday the President was up past his bedtime. The First Lady was asleep. He had just watched the Astros go down three-zip to the White Sox, and he says to himself: "Bad karma." And he pulled her.

That's all the explanation I need. George Bush's opponents, on the left and on the right, have wanted to shove his presidency into a hole for a long time. Their chance was at hand. He just took it away from them. No matter which of two briefcases Patrick Fitzgerald brings to work today, it's time for this presidency to go back to work.

The currents of chatter will continue to swirl inside the Beltway, but the tide has turned?