The Democrats dont have the votes in the senate, period. And the GOP will not vote yay on it, it will go nowhere and Obama will use it as a ploy to say "Well, at least I tried" and all the while blame it's failure on the GOP and not his own party. And dumbasses who support him will buy into every bit of it.
Seems the "dumbasses" are those who believe the Republican Party and its leadership in Congress put "Country First"; the Boehner Congress has done nothing to reduce unemployment and McConnell has stated from the get-go his focus will be on making the president a one term president.
Supporting the Republican Party is to support an ends and means ideology, the R's want a return to power no matter who suffers. Messrs. Boehner and McConnell have stonewalled every effort by the Obama Administration to provide relief to our citizens, they continue to press the advantage for corporate America.
It may not happen tomorrow, but such an elitist ideology will one day lead to what the power elite most fear, a popular uprising of average citizens. Once middle America recognizes that the promises of the New Right are false and the average man or woman's hopes and dreams will be realized, shit will hit the fan - history repeats.