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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Voters decided they want change, but they also are bound to get challenge and confrontation in a government split between Democrats and a president determined not to cede ground in his final two White House years.
If President Bush struggled to get top priorities like new Social Security and immigration plans passed in the first half of his second term, his remaining time in office looks even bleaker. Democrats in charge of the House and potentially the Senate will have enough votes to block Bush's proposals and the authority to investigate problems in Iraq and elsewhere that could embarrass the GOP.
Even though he will be a lame duck, Bush still maintains significant power — he can veto Democratic bills he doesn't like and he continues as commander in chief during a time of war. But Democrats said they considered the election an overwhelming rejection of the war in Iraq and — by extension — the president who started it.
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