Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on this evening’s Senate vote on the jobs bill: “I think you’re correct that if we can’t get 51 Democrats to vote for it, it will clearly be argued by Republicans and construed by all of you as undermining the President’s message.”

As I said below, there’s value in Senate Democrats remaining united on the jobs bill today because it gives them a clear message. But as Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg points out, voting for the President’s plan is good politics for individual fence-sitting Dems, too. A good point.

Occupy DC protestors plan on shutting down the Hart Senate Office building at 11:30 AM this morning, which is to say, right about now.