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Tell me if I'm wrong. A. Bush knows this won't pass the test with the Supreme Court and therefore signs it, knows the challenges are coming and that the Court will dismantle it B.It passes the Court and therefore couldn't be stopped in the long term and a Republican might as well be the one to take away the issue from the Dems. Seems to be W is about taking away issues from the Dems. Not saying I like it, just that this is what I see. God bless Ronald Reagan - I don't think he would have done it this way.

You could well be correct about the "strategic thinking" which may be going on at the White House.
Nonetheless, GWB as well as the 535 members of the legislative branch took the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America".
Therfore, every last SOB who voted "For" this CFR bill has failed to uphold his/her oath of office.
The Constitution is far more important than any political agenda.

and a Republican might as well be the one to take away the issue from the Dems

THE POINT OF ELECTING REPUBLICANS IS SO WE WON'T GET DEMOCRAT LAWS PASSED. Got it??

If the GOP is going to give the Democrats what they want, then why do we vote for them???

God bless Ronald Reagan - I don't think he would have done it this way.

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."

Ronald Reagan, from his autobiography, An American Life