Rove's Blunder?

According to the Washington Post op-ed Fall Elections Are Rove's Next Test by Jim VandeHei and Dan Baly, the GOP's succest or failure in the 2006 election rests on Rove's shoulders. Take heart you bitter Dems Rove, your arch nemesis, will be brought to his knees after the Democrat's expected 2006 election sweep - and besides he isn't that infallible -- look at his pass mistakes. According to Jim and Dan:

...the Social Security debate was probably Rove's biggest blunder,
Rove convinced Bush that an in-depth analysis of past second-term presidents showed the only way to succeed was to act quickly and boldly. Internally, Rove championed a plan to restructure Social Security by allowing younger Americans to put some of the their Social Security
taxes into private accounts in exchange for a reduction in guaranteed
benefits.

Rove gambled that Bush could bend Congress and a skeptical public to
his will. He was wrong.

Ah another example of liberal revisionism. The "blunder" wasn't made by Bush's effort to restructure Social Security, it was made by the Democrats and their friends in the press -- no way was a Republican president going to fix Social Security and deminish Franklin Roosevelt's status as a Democrat god. It was all out war and gutless wonders in congress, and especially Republicans up for reelection, slapped Bush down.

Dear Jim and Dan, consult your fifth grade civics book where it says the president and his advisors do not make laws.

So here is a question for history: Will Bush get credit for trying to fix Social Security before it became a desperate problem or will failure to fix it rest on Rove's blunder.