I don't know, I just heard Senator Susan Collins on C-Span2, she was talking a lot of stuff, but she mentioned the vote of no on the DoD bill despite having DADT which she had sponsored in the past and DA which she supported, she voted no because she claimed she did not like how they brought it up, and also referenced to the possibility of a group uniting in order to prevent democrat leadership from adding amendments and not allowing republicans from discussing those amendments before taking the bills to vote.

She was considered as being one of 6 potential female presidential nominees and called herself a moderate republican. All I heard was that she let down a bill that she had sponsored in the past and a bill that she approved of in order to make a point, and that worries me about attaching this to anything.

Those tactics did not work with the DoD, it might not work if it is attached to another bill for the same reason, because we might just give the republicans the ability to approve of the DA bill but filibuster the passage of another important bill which has the DA attached and give them an excuse to feed the public while claiming their support of the DA and trying to get the latino vote that way.

I really really hope that reid has all the democratic votes, if he does then the all the republicans will not be able to vote no on the DA and later on feed BS to the public about how they support the DA in order to try and get the latino vote.