“Five months after President Bush was sworn in for another four years, his political authority appears to be ebbing, both within his own party, where members of Congress are increasingly if sporadically going their own way, and among Democrats, who have discovered that they pay little or no price for defying him,” the New York Times reports.
This is very different than just a few months ago. Recent polls have Bush at his lowest ebb ever, with the majority of the populace now opposing the war and his extremist agenda.