Senate Monstrosity Larger Than House Monstrosity

After a day of negotiations that were supposed to reduce the size of the Porkulus Bill, the Senate has apparently reached agreement on a bill that's...wait for it....$7.5 billion larger than the House bill:

Cost of deal: $780bn

Cost of amendments added on the floor: $47bn

Total cost of Senate bill: $827.0bn

Total estimated cost with interest: $1.2 trillion

Senate bill is $7.5bn higher than the House bill

If that's not bad enough, they apparently are flying Teddy Kennedy up from Florida so they can wheel him in for a dramatic vote (which also tells me they're afraid they won't get more than 2 Republicans).

We're about to handed what Michelle Malkin refers to as a "crap sandwich".

It looks like the vote will come later tonight.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, anything that was cut out of the bill during the Senate negotiations will probably be added back in next week:

One, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, told reporters he and others hoped that some of the funds on the chopping block would be restored next week when negotiations open on a House-Senate compromise.