Ironically if the bill does die Bush will get all of the blame for even having stupidly brought it up. Kennedy and the libs will get credit in the MSM for “trying to help families” while the left will crucify conservatives for being “cold hearted bigots”. I used to defend Bush being an intelligent man who was misunderestimated, but I truly have to question his mental capacities. Did it ever enter his pea-brain that Ted Kennedy does NOT have America’s best interests in mind? It was lose-lose from the beginning. He pretty much evaporated the remaining conservative support he had. Now he literally has no one to support him. I feel lost and betrayed by this man.
Probably not. Ever since the beginning of his presidency, he's suffered from the delusion that the way to get along with Democrats is to be nice to them, that you can convince them, that you can appeal to their "better nature". We know better that leftists are not interested in the welfare of their nation, they are interested in the acquisition and retention of power. Sadly, Bush has not yet figured out that this ain't the Texas legislature.
Let it be his albatross, he earned it.