Maureen Dowd: W has jumped the couch

Maureen Dowd introduces a new term -- jumping the couch, as in what Tom Cruise did on Oprah. W has jumped it big-time this week.

But the most telling line in her column is what I've been thinking all week about the way the tide is turning on the Iraq war.

Writing about a Crawford barbecue the President held for the press, she says: "W. chatted about sports and the twins, still oblivious to the cultural shift that is turning 2005 into 1968."

More on that later.