re: #269 realwest
The way it works is that the House leadership and some key members, all Dem, and the Senate Dem leadership plus the token participation of the 3 pinheads, will define a compromise bill. Then the compromise or ‘final’ version needs to be passed by the House and Senate before it goes to The One for signature.
One can suppose that the 3 pinheads will reverse their vote if the bill gets too much more crap added into it - but I ultimately doubt it. As Specter said on Fox News this morning, he gave his word to Reid that he supports it so he will vote for the steaming pile as doing the wrong thing is apparently better than doing nothing.