Since then, nearly half those 41 Democrats have left office and 5 others said in interviews they now prefer life without parole.
Is it ruthless to say the Democrats would leave the country more vulnerable to terrorism?
Democrats left no doubt that they would use the issue in the fall campaigns and portray Republicans as tools of the tobacco industry.
And some Democrats are leaving early rather than slog through a race they very well might lose.
In the late '60's the Democrats benefited from the spending and left most of the problems to the Republicans.
The crisis concluded the following month, when the two Democrats left the Republican coalition.
And the Democrats would leave room for members to continue converting leftover campaign funds to personal use - currently a widespread practice.
They all have to be taken down, taken apart or taken out once the Democrats leave.
Democrats did not leave the day only for Republicans.
Bush's blunders and the Democrats who gave him cover along the way have left us without easy solutions for improving the situation.