The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: Bush Boys Play Doctor by James Ridgeway

Is there a doctor in the White House? George W. Bush promised to get the government off our backs, but the federal presence has grown, not shrunk. Now he adds yet one more chore, that of doctor of last resort. …

[This] could result in a backlash from conservatives who have ceaselessly preached the sanctity of the family and making government smaller. It exposes the rent in the Republican right between the libertarian-minded get-the-government-off-our-backs crowd and the Christian advocates of a strong central state who want to hammer home their social policies on the local level, too.