This really might be the best thing to happen to the GOP since Reagan switched parties in the 60's. This will be a DEMOCRAT Obama/Pelosi/Reid Porkulus Bill of 2009. As of Thursday evening, when the PresBO and the House Dems took a sabbatical to the spa in Williamsburg, Va, only 38% of Americans supported it. The longer it is drawn out, the more fetid and festering this corpse of legislation becomes and the more of it is exposed in the light to the American people. The worst thing that the POTUS can do for the economy is to come out every day and tell us imminent catastrophe if it's not passed. Politics of Hope?? I remember hearing the same thing about the TARP funds back in October. If Harry Reid is bragging that he already has the votes in the Senate to ramrod this thing down our throats, (which he does) than why so adamant about having the Republicans sign on to this. And Arlen Spectre and Susan Collins are RINOs BTW....
Jeff Sessions, Jim DeMint, and Mitch McConnell will fight this down to the wire, which will probably be Monday or Tuesday due to procedural haranguing.