What is it about this election that causes people to say absolutely crazy things? John McCain is a tsaddik! John McCain is like Tsar-Martyr Nikolai! What profound confusion or monomania can people suffer from that allows them to compare blithely one of the worst presidential candidates in my lifetime to revered and holy figures? I would not show disrespect to my Catholic friends by comparing the ridiculous members of our political class, particularly one known for his reflexive support for wars that have directly harmed Catholic communities in the Near East, to Blessed Karl of Austria for any reason. Endorse McCain as the lesser of two evils if you must, but spare us the sacrilege.
On the specific policy matter at hand, there is an assumption here that the so-called Freedom of Choice Act would pass the House in which conservative Democrats make up a fifth of the majority. This is a very questionable assumption, to say the least.
davegnyc 
L.T. 
Zmirak’s analogy is flawed in many ways, but, uncharacteristically, you are overlooking something obvious: the disturbing resemblance to Tsar Nikolaj II of none other than the current president and wanna-be Emperor Of All The Americas George II.
The church may have recognized the late tsar as a passion-bearer (not a martyr, and there is a difference) for his conduct in Bolshevik captivity, but as Solzhenitsyn pointed out his domestic policy while still in power was that of a ninny. By clinging to autocracy, Nikolaj alienated many of the best elements of Russian society, who might otherwise have worked to stabilize the country within a Duma with real power. So too Bush with his “signing statements.”
Nikolaj devastated Russia by refusing to back out of a war from which his own country could profit little, waged primarily for the benefit of foreign “allies” who later proved ungrateful. Bush, Iraq, and Israel can be dropped right into place here.
It’s not February 1917 as Zmirak would have it. It’s October, and the choice is between a Republican police state with, perhaps, fewer summary executions than Kolchak would have liked; and Bolsheviks poised to institute a radical new order.
The historical analogy can only be carried so far, since Bush will not actually be locked up with his family to await execution.
But it is interesting to note that when Kerensky came to visit the ex-tsar while he was under house arrest in Yekaterinburg, Nikolaj wrote in his diary of his surprise at finding out someone he had viewed as an enemy turned out to have honest love for Russia, and wished he could have worked with the man while he had the chance. I don’t think Bush has the intellectual honesty, or the patriotism, to think a thought like that.