Geesh, are you being obtuse on purpose? The democrats liked the bill, they just weren't pushing it. The republican leadership loved the bill too, but the few conservatives in the senate did not.
The bill wasn't being held up by democrats but by conservative republicans. Bush, Lott, McCain and Kyl arm twisted the republican holdouts for two weeks until enough of them agreed to reconsider.
Of course. Why should they - the Rats, that is - do ANY of the heavy lifting, as well as take the political hit, if the have the President to do it for them?
Like some of us said earlier, his political capital bank account is definitely overdrawn at this point.
Your view of the true dynamics of this legislative battle are as sophomoric as they are (needlessly) anti-Republican.