Is it ironic that Bush has a mandate to outlaw man dates?

The partisan dispute du jour seems to concern the question of a mandate. In one sense, clearly, Bush has secured his mandate -- elected under questionable circumstances he won a majority. In another sense, there's not much of a mandate here -- he campaigned mainly by attacking John Kerry and promising not to allow gays to get married, there was no popular ratification of, say, Health Savings Accounts. In the sense that matters, Bush has all the mandate in the world.

Matthew Yglesias: Mandate Time