Uh huh.
The Die alte Sau disremembers her history.
It was Vast Teddy who, in the mid-1970s, thought of the NCLB thing, and he pushed it hard.
But nobody was interested; even when the Democrats had a near-veto-proof Congress during the late 1970s, Vast Teddy couldn't garner support for his idea.
And then during the 1980s, well, Reagan was in the White House, and then Bush.
During the first two years of the Clinton administration, 1993-1995, when the Democrats had again a near-veto-proof Congress, Vast Teddy couldn't get anybody excited about it. And then of course when Congress changed hands in 1995, there was even less excitement about it.
Vast Teddy got nowhere with his pet idea for 25 ****ing years, many of those years when the Democrats had substantial majorities in Congress (or at least one house).
Then comes the second George Bush, a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.
During the spring and summer of 2001, wanting to make nice-nice with Vast Teddy, to get some brownie points with the squalid dropsical one, George Bush decided to do him a kindness, thinking that would make the obese fat one more friendlier towards him.
So George Bush pushed Vast Teddy's NCLB, in unison with the Massachusetts blimp; they worked together.
It was a hard sell, among both Republicans and even liberal Democrats. Nobody wanted it.
But George Bush twisted a whole lot of rigid arms, and got it passed.
Vast Teddy sat side-by-side with George Bush as he signed the bill; it was on television and everything, Vast Teddy being hailed as the genius who'd created NCLB.
That was in August 2001, when that happened.
Something else happened in September 2001 that sort of put the previous event into the shadow or eclipse or totally forgotten.
But it was Vast Teddy's bill, not George Bush's.
As events later transpired, it became obvious that Vast Teddy didn't believe in returning favors. George Bush got to like him, but Vast Teddy still hated George Bush.
That appearance by Vast Teddy in the White House the summer of 2001, just before 9/11, was the last time Vast Teddy was ever in the White House until the Magic One moved in. For eight years, he wasn't invited to waddle in, probably the longest time a Kennedy hadn't made a shadow in the Executive Mansion.