they do smell blood, you are right.
its going to get alot worse. alot worse. and this speech is not helping. Bush is pinning the tail on his own a*s here - instead of stepping up and saying the truth - that the american people need to realize that they have elected a majority party - WHO HAVE NO POLICY on how to win in iraq, or in the war on terror.
just say it damn it.
Bush has only lost once in his career. I don't think he has the slightest clue how to deal with it.
I can tell him this much. This isn't how you handle loss.
He should have looked to Leiberman for an example. You strike back and put your opponent on the defensive before they've even adjusted to winning one battle.
What he should have been doing effective immediately was announcing the terrorists in Iraq and their sympathtizers are not going to face a restrained military anymore and started pounding them down into the ground. Then he should have taken the new tone gloves off and started telling people the truth about the Dems, the Islamofascists and articulate the conservative message that helped Dems win last night.
Instead we get Rummy sacrificed to the wolves and further appeals to new tone.