'Bush Too Dumb to Multi-Task', BBC Hope

Whenever the BBC use the word 'Analysis' these days, what follows is usually a frothy mix of liberal bias and, in a world increasingly dominated by right-of-centre good sense, the kind of cheery leftist optimism that gives the corporation an air of having become a sort of Stalinist version of Pathe news.
Today's piece, by Ian Pannell, is entitled 'Analysis: Bush's Gaze to Turn Homewards'. It argues:

If 2004 was a foreign policy year in the almanac of US politics, 2005 is likely to see attention focus on more home-grown issues.

Pannell's reasoning? That Bush will have his hands full with the upcoming Supreme Court nominations, and so will be less able to tackle matters of foreign policy:

The left is worried the president will try to pack the Supreme Court with anti-abortion stooges. The right is worried that judicial appointments will be blocked and are accusing the left of a "tyranny of the minority".
I have a sneaking suspicion that the real moral (and silent) majority are not fretting about this over their turkey sandwiches this holiday season, but that won't extinguish hot collars in Washington or prevent lurid headlines around the country.

It's interesting, of course, that in Pannell's world, 'anti-abortion stooges' doesn't warrant sneer quotes, but 'tyranny of the minority' does. Perhaps this happens because Pannell has uncovered a hitherto unnoticed 'majority' of Americans who remain quite apathetic to the ethics of cracking babies' skulls open in abortion clinics. This 'majority', we note, are silent. Considering it's not two months since an election in which a popular minority of fifty-two per-cent re-elected Bush, we could be forgiven for wondering if they're invisible as well.

But really, why is it Pannell thinks Bush isn't capable of attending to both foreign and domestic policy? Wishful thinking? An assumption that Republican Presidents aren't up to the intellectual stretch of multi-tasking? Or does he yearn for the heady days of the Clinton administration, when Rock-Star Bill demonstrated his ability to do two things at once by making policy decisions while ejaculating over a comely intern?

Struggling to the end of Pannell's piece yields another, more disturbing, explanation for his confusion about U.S. politics -- A tendency to blur the line between fantasy and reality:

It should be a less tumultuous year but election junkies need not despair - there's always the race to succeed President Bartlet to quicken the pulse... and if you have read this far and don't watch the TV series The West Wing I am, frankly, disappointed in you.
'Well, you see, the New Hampshire primaries are about to begin and Alan Alda has just announced that he is going to…'

Um, did a BBC correspondent just conclude an article on the U.S. Presidency by talking about the West Wing? OK, OK, we realise that fictional Democrats are the only ones who stand a chance of being elected these days, but come on guys …