Thursday, June 28, 2007

Twisting arms out of sockets. From an Senate source email to Rich Lowry (e.a.):
Webb's arm was twisted out of socket on cloture on motion to proceed, and rumor is he will vote no on cloture motion... But honestly I think he's a toss up.
And:
Burr supposedly came out publicly as no on cloture - I didn't hear or see... But rumor is that he'll be a no on cloture...

Bond I think is good...

Rumor is that Bayh is potentially a flip which would mix things up a bit...[Bayh--flipped to be against cloture last time...--NA]]

Though, I would add Nelson in too... I think Bond is most solid and then Domenici, Burr and Nelson (55/45)... Then Webb (50/50), then Ensign (45/55)...

Bloomberg article is right that Gregg, Bingaman, Murkowski, Pryor, Stevens are undecided but possible...

Burr now seems publicly against cloture as is Nelson. So we seem to be at 3 pretty well confirmed switches--Domenici, Burr, and Nelson--against cloture, and Bond seems pretty strongly against cloture. So we seem to be at 4 switches.....Does any one have any others?