In 1994, after the Republicans took the House, pundits started to write Bill Clinton's political obituary. He was powerless, he was irrelevant, he would be out the door in two short years. In fact, a popular Bill Clinton won an easy re-election victory over Bob Dole.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does have a tendency to rhyme. The Democrats won and they'll get a little bit of time to bask in the glory of that win. The assumption will be that they will get their way on every little thing and the Bush Era is over. But George Bush is not a moron, nor is he a bad politician. If he can't run for re-election, then he also doesn't have to worry as much as Clinton did about finding a productive relationship with the new Congress. Bill Clinton whined when he said it, but it is still true: the Presidency is still relevant.
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