in my 59 years I've never seen a president in so much trouble. Nixon at least had the support of a lot of his party. bush is vilafied by all the demorats and now a significant majority of his own party. the surprising thing is how the senate is supporting him on this. I guess the prospect of all those new victim-type voters is too good to pass up.
Nixon had little support from his party when it became apparent, in early 1974 with the firing of Archibald Cox, that he was going to drag the GOP down with him.
Bush is not going anywhere, he has two years left, and a situation in Iraq that improves daily.
And don't kid yourself. If Hastert stonewalls, the public will perceive that the GOP Congress refused to deal with immigration when everybody knows that Bush wanted to.
Seems like GOP House members have to decide if they want to get killed for supporting a bill that the more rabid right doesn't want, or get killed for doing nothing.