Smackdown!

House Republicans are getting bolder as they bail out on the Bush agenda during an election year.

WASHINGTON - The House dealt an election-season setback to President Bush on Wednesday by voting to overturn restrictions his administration has issued on the gift parcels that Americans can send to family members in Cuba.

The 221-194 vote was won by a coalition in which Democrats were joined by nearly four dozen farm-state and free-trade Republicans to rebuff the president.

And they're not shy about slamming his plans in the press.

"It's hard to think of an economic sanction that does more harm to the welfare of families in Cuba, or does more to make the U.S. seem mean-spirited toward families who already have the misfortune to live under communism," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz...

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a Cuban-American, said the proposal was "dishonest" and "condescending."

"Mean-spirited." "Dishonest." "Condescending."

Yep, they're starting to figure him out.

You can run, George, but you can't win.