Hate to be the bearer of bad news but enough republicans will cross over and vote for senate bill of 250k and below. In the end that is what might happen. This is why Dems are happy. Not enough tea party to stop it.
Dems are in a great position because of the party not being unified. This is going to end up with a worse deal because the mainstream party will deal. No way republicans are going to
Let market tank.
Also, the Speaker controls the flow of legislation ~ although there are ways to override his decisions that doesn't happen all that often.
Obama and his trolls imagine they have all the cards in this ~ whereas they have none.