How things can change...

[tagryn]

From an old article in Salon.com:"Can Bush Be Toppled?"

June 11, 2003 | He's riding high in Aqaba, forcing Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas to talk peace in the Middle East. He's Top Gun on the flight deck of the USS Lincoln, triumphantly greeting the troops to declare war with Iraq over, looking manly in his flight suit. He's pushed two gargantuan tax cuts through Congress, and his approval ratings remain sky high. True, in some 2004 election polls he's only a few points ahead of an "unnamed Democrat" -- but he trounces any of the Democrats currently running for president by at least 10 points.

Hard to believe how much the political landscape has changed in only 5 years. Heck, even in early 2006 there were books being published about how Republican control was going to become permanent. Ooops.