Which brain dead Republicans will fall for it?
SEC Split on Party Lines Over Goldman Case (But Obama denies any involvement) - FR / WSj / NYP, #15
So, Reid will do a bluff hoping to intimidate some Republicans coinciding with Obama's pitch for the bill in his travelling salesman routine:
Reid to play chicken on Wall Street reform, daring GOP to filibuster - The Hill, 2010 April 20, by Alexander Bolton
Reid said he plans to move ahead with immediate consideration of the financial regulatory reform bill, despite a GOP pledge to filibuster the measure. Remember, there are only 59 of us, so if a single Republican is not willing to join with us, there will be no Wall Street reform, Reid said. Republicans will have killed Wall Street reform. I am confident that will not happen. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a crucial swing vote, said Monday that she would support a Republican filibuster if Reid tried to advance a bill crafted by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). But Democrats believe that even if Collins votes to block a bill, other centrist Republicans, such as Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, may vote to allow debate. ..... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to play a game of political chicken with Senate Republicans, daring them to kill a Wall Street reform bill.
The more time GOP can milk by extending "hope" to Dems for "bypartisan" bill, the less time Dems will have for other pernicious bills before November.