Political Capital? ....... Gone. ....... It's ours now.

It will be difficult for Bush to get much of anything substantive done from this point forward. His 2nd term agenda has been shot down from the beginning; Social Seciruty - dead; Reforming tax code - never got off the ground; Spreading Democracy in Iraq - work in slow and weary progress.

His only victory has been John Roberts, and that wasn't that much of a blow to Dems.

Instead, we have:
Ballooning inflation
Terry Schiavo fiasco
Record oil company profits
Record gas prices
Failed Supreme Court nomination
Failed federal response to natural disasters
2,000+ dead soldiers
Worst second term approval ratings of any modern president
and finally, indicted chief of staff to the Vice President.

They claimed the had a "mandate" for change, NOW WE HAVE IT! Sick 'em DCCC and DSCC!

on edit: added some failures.

is TO change.

However that may take shape.