How does that explain Hannity and Rush calling this a "democrat" bill?
It's driving me crazy that Rush won't put any blame on Bush for this bill.
How does that explain Hannity and Rush calling this a 'democrat' bill?
I haven't been following Hannity and Rush, but what you describe sounds like they're trying to cover for Jorge much as the LeftistMedia covers/distorts for the Demrats.
For the most part it is a Democrat bill. If you look at the numbers in terms of votes you'll see that. The problem with Bush is, he bought into the idea of bi-partisanship; that the one issue he really wanted to secure a legacy could be obtained through a bi-partisan effort. And the RINO's in Congress abetted him by working with the Democrats behind closed doors to craft this POS.
What Rush and others are saying, is that regardless of Bush's interest in this, it never would have gotten this far without major Democrat input and influence (the DIM's would never have bought into a purely Republican bill that made sense - not in the Senate!). Consequently, the bill had little in it for Bush's base to support, thus no way to gain traction otherwise.
Why would this make you feel better? We need to paper this all over Democrats. There were only a few Republicans that wanted this monstrosity and it was Republicans who defeated it.