Bush Hobbled By Rove? Hardly

A depressing but accurate story in Rolling Stone details that while Bush was seemingly hobbled by Karl Rove, bombings in London and the endless blood-letting in Iraq, Bush was also scoring victory after victory on Capitol Hill. Among his triumphs: that pork-packed energy bill, that equally filled-with-fat highway bill, the passing of CAFTA and the renewal of the Patriot Act with almost all of it intact and now permanent. The Dems big victory? Not getting in the way when Bush imploded with his dangerous and unpopular desire to destroy Social Security. Some lame duck.