President Bush can?t be blamed these days if he wakes up every morning and wonders what?s happened to all that “political capital” he won in his re-election only a year and a half ago.

A day doesn?t seem to pass anymore when there isn?t some reason to accuse his administration of being the gang that can?t shoot straight. Or in the immortal words of baseball manager Casey Stengel of the hapless New York Mets of 1962: “Can?t anybody here play this game?”