The Washington Post looks at President Bush’s first 100 days in office and asks:

“The main question facing Bush and his party is whether they misread the November elections. With the president's poll numbers down, and the Republican majority ensnared in ethical controversy, things look much less like a once-a-generation realignment.”

However, beyond the challenges of Social Security and judicial nominations, the Post gives the Bush administration’s early second term a much higher assessment:

“Bush in his first 100 days has enacted far-reaching proposals to restructure the nation's laws on bankruptcy and class-action lawsuits.”

“Judged by conventional standards, such legislative victories would signal a second-term president performing at full throttle. But Bush signaled from the moment of his reelection that he was not contemplating a conventional second term.”