The first three paragraphs of Daniel Henninger’s Wall Street Journal column today are mesmerizing in their incoherence:

Here’s my guess why the President pulled Harriet. 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.

Last week here we were plotting the Bush revival. For the record, if he signs on to an across-the-board spending sequester, I will do dinner for 62,040,606, the number that popularly voted for fiscal rectitude in 2004. More important than that, however, was the distinction embedded in that advice-to-the-Rovelorn column: “A Supreme Court nomination, however important, is a political obligation. Iraq is a moral obligation.” With 2,000 U.S. dead in Iraq, that idea holds. Iraq transcends everything. This is the 9/11 presidency.

Apropos of nothing, Henninger makes up a story about why Bush pulled Miers that comforts him (shades of the Bush personality cult), asserts that Bush voters in 2004 “voted for fiscal rectitude,” and claims that Bush’s “9/11 presidency” is the reason we should stay the course in Iraq. Huh?