Is the Boehner/Obama cromnibus bill going to die in the Senate?

 I am sure it is all going to work out (if you can call it that) in the end but for right now, here we go again. It appears as if, much like in the House, usually-opposing factions are teaming up to stop the Boehner/Obama cromnibus bill.

  Harry Reid had intended to bring the cromnibus bill to the Senate Floor yesterday for a quick vote in order to avoid a government shut down tonight but he pulled the bill from consideration and here is why:

Reports state that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to force a quick Friday afternoon vote to send the CR-Omnibus budget to the President to be signed into law, but Republican Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Jeff Sessions wanted Reid to agree to allow a vote to defund Obama’s amnesty plans before they would agree to vote for the budget.

A senior Capitol Hill aide noted that a quick end to Senate deliberations was blocked when Harry Reid refused to allow any vote on defunding Obama’s amnesty. Reid’s refusal, the staffer said, has become an “ongoing problem.”

Republicans, though, were not the only ones making tough demands on Reid. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded that Reid strip out financial deregulation provisions in the budget the House passed. Reid was reluctant to agree to that, as well.

  But what is interesting about today’s session is that Harry Reid has apparently put funding the government on the back-burner so that he can focus on other issues:

But Reid has a whole list of things–including some of Obama’s nominees–that Democrats want dealt with before they lose the majority to the incoming GOP victors of November’s midterm election, and the budget bill will likely come only after some of these items are dealt with on Saturday.

With the long list of deals that Reid wants handled first, the Senate could run out of time before the budget comes up for discussion.

  The Democrats have higher priorities than keeping the government open and they are based on purely partisan issues–trying to push as much through before the Republicans take over–and if that means they do not get to the cromnibus, so bit it.

  This is very interesting because we all remember that when Ted Cruz shut down the government in his effort to defund Obamacare he was pilloried by the Democrats and the mainstream media for putting partisan politics ahead of funding the government.

  Is not this the same? Yeah, I thought so…