[Rennes Templar]

There is only the appearance of weakness thanks to MSM.
War opposition and ratings skewed by skewed polls; Iraq will be turning the corner after Dec. parliamentary elections; US economy grew by 3.8 % last quarter in spite of "energy crisis" (not a peep from MSM); fuel prices going down; Plame affair was a mole hill from a mountain; DeLay already seen as victim: Dims unraveling.

W's true transient weakness was due to Miers, and he corrected that; his ongoing vulnerabilities are spending and the border. By next summer W will be riding high.

[Spirited]

With picks like Spectre he won't be riding anywhere soon.

He is politically rather obtuse and his team isn't any better. FR has more insight than a number of his councilors.
You watch Ruth Bader Ginsburg do this, too and put the whole administration under her direction by not resigning unless she gets a successor she wants.