Bush benefits from Homeland shift Once a doubter, he reaps political rewards by backing new agency 11/26/2002 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - For someone who once resisted the idea, President Bush got a lot of mileage out of the Department of Homeland Security. It helped fuel the Republican takeover of the Senate in the Nov. 5 elections, analysts said, and also gave Mr. Bush a chance to exercise his new political muscle on the lame duck Congress that voted to create the department. Not bad, considering that many prominent Democrats pitched the idea that...