Kyl is delutional.
That’s my interpretation too, he’s acting like a spoiled child who didn’t get his way but you know they do want this badly.
I listened to Kyl at the press conference after the cloture vote failed, and what I took from his comments were two principal points:
1. Kyl wants him name associated with “historic” legislation, a term he used repeatedly, and
2. He devoted a lot of his own time to working on this thing, and believes we should all agree to pass it because he personally worked hard on it.