Didn’t Reid say it was DOA? So what difference does it make?
The difference is if the House GOP passes a plan and the Dem Senate does not pass it simply because Obama wants to push this out past the election, then the Dems own the resulting default.
Of course, they could always turn this back on the House. They could take the Boehner bill, gut it and amend it to contain the Reid bill, pass it and send it BACK to the House and dare them to vote it down - in that case, blame goes back to the House. Of course, that would then require a conference committee, and who is appointed to that committee would largely determine what the final bill looked like.
It makes a difference because the TEA Party crew are suppose to have principles and this is a sellout to those principles for a political ploy, Status Que in DC, Same as it ever was!