Bush's sputtering second term

This from Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe columnist, is worth a read:


THIS CAN'T BE the way George W. Bush and Karl Rove imagined the president's second term would go.

Less than seven months after Bush won reelection, strengthening his party's hold on Congress as he did so, the president has hit a wall with his domestic agenda.

On major matters, he's clearly lost the public. And this week the Republican Congress itself started to revolt. Read the rest.