Earlier today, a group of Republican senators held a press conference on the Hill to discuss the stimulus package that will be coming to them next. Their outlook was very negative, with lots of talk about “resisting” the bill in its current form.

Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R., Okla.) comments were the most direct: “This is about spending money we don’t have, for things we don’t need. That’s 80 percent of this bill . . . This bill is the generational theft bill. It’s denying wealth to future generations.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) said: “There’s very little likelihood of a significant change in this collossal bill. As such, we will rally and point out the failures in it. We’re talking about the largest bill in the history of the Republic.”

Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.): “Ladies and gentlemen, a trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste.”

If this is the early feedback from the Senate GOP, the most likely outcome appears to be passage largely along party lines. There is, as Sessions stated, only a small chance of major changes being made to the bill.