For President Bush, the Reservoir of Goodwill Is Bone-Dry

• By Stuart Rothenberg
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Sept. 27, 2007, Midnight

About six weeks ago, an influential Capitol Hill Democrat told me he suspected that both Democrats in Congress and the White House were itching for a fight and, he said, if there was one in the fall, he certainly wanted it to be about the “kids’ health,” not about appropriations bills.