As you might have read already, a bunch of people already counted votes in the Senate, and the FMA is
DOA.
Is this good? Well, yes, obviously it is. But I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make Dubya push harder for it and so lose more of the independent vote. As it is, he can claim he did all he could, keep the base happy, and start pretending again that he is "compassionate".
I don't think (or hope) that the wingnuts will be happy with a quick retreat, but heck if I understand that demographic. So, I don't know.