(ABC News) — After meeting with his caucus today for nearly two hours, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, D-NV., declared, “the only compromise that there is — is mine” and blasted the latest Boehner bill that will be voted on in the House later today.

“It’s being jammed through that with all kinds of nontransparent dealings,” Reid said to reporters at the Ohio Clock today, “They’ve basically given the right wing even more than what they had before.”

Senator Schumer, D-NY., called the revised Boehner debt plan an “absurd proposition.”

“To get his conservatives back on the reservation at this point, he’s adding all kinds of poison pills to his plan,” Schumer said, “His new plan requiring that each house of Congress not vote on, but pass, a balanced budget amendment before any debt ceiling is raised will guarantee a default.”

Reid said that his door is still open to McConnell to sit down and negotiate this afternoon — and that he already has some Republican ideas that he wants to add in to make it more acceptable tonight when he files cloture on his offer. The Majority Leader added that he has not taken his eyes off the McConnell fall back proposal, a hint that the final product could very well includes elements of McConnell’s “last choice” option.”

But Democratic leadership, and Reid says his whole caucus, is remaining firm: “there will be no agreement if it’s a short-term extension.”

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