Slow learners.

It takes Republicans awhile. Just as addle-pated Sen. Ted Stevens thinks the internet is a "series of tubes," so George W. Bush calls Google "The Google"--oh, and he uses it, to look up maps. No surprise, then, that the GOP seems to be teetering on the brink of shifting its longtime "stay the course" policy in Iraq--thanks to record-low approval ratings for the war and internal dissent among poll-watching Republicans. Will a sensible withdrawal timeline for US troops be next?