Voting now on point of order!

[Egnever]

hold your breathe and cross your toes!

Cspan 2

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. keep us informed

[creativelcro]

5. Feinstein Y

[Egnever]

8. ugh not looking good

this isnt going to stop it I dont think

[JI7]

2. i wish they would have a display for votes

like they have in the house. when the senators vote, i wish they would display the numbers for and against up there.

[Egnever]

3. yea me too. It was very suspensfull

aye votes

baucus nebnnet brow roberts santorum stevens


byrd daschle kenedy kerry ried nay

[Cocoa]

4. Tommy Thompson called it a "technicality"

said the bill was on the 1-yard line. He and all the other republicans at his press conference looked somber, which I took as a good sign.

Fingers crossed...

[Tyler Durden]

7. The CONSTITUTION is a TECHNICALITY??

Fucker rEPUKES. All of them. Not one of them worth a shit in Hell.

[Cocoa]

11. also called it "bipartisan"

by which he meant every dem shut out except for Breaux and Baucus, Baucus lookin like he'd literally had the shit kicked out of him.

[Mel]

17. he does

the side of his face is cut up and bruised. Does anybody know what happened to him? Wreck....or did he hit someone's fist with his face? hee! heee!

[berner59]

9. Feinstein...aye???

What's wrong with her?? Does this have a chance to be defeated??

[Egnever]

6. votes

thomas
bunning
cornan
feinstien aye!!
voinovich
camble




nays



mcain
reed
edwards

[creativelcro]

10. Jeffords voted yes as well

[creativelcro]

12. 16 Nos so far

[berner59]

14. Bush will get his bill...

And have a big tada over it...boy, when will people wake up???

[dpibel]

13. Three flips that I know of

Daschle, Graham, and Murray voted for cloture, and have voted no on this motion. IIRC, that means four more flips from the cloture vote, and this motion goes down.

[berner59]

15. oooh keep track...

I can't remember...who else to look for to maybe change??

[flpoljunkie]

19. McCain, Hagel have voted no on this point of order.

This is good. We have to watchfor defecting Dems. So far, there are 10 Democrats voting for this point of order, by my count.

Don't be surprised if this passes with exactly 60 votes. The fix may well be in!

[dpibel]

22. Negative flip

Chaffee voted no on cloture; just voted aye on this motion.

[xray s]

16. Wyden ?

[xray s]

26. Wyden Aye

Its gonna pass

[Egnever]

18. this is going to be close

im on the edge of my seat here.

[dpibel]

23. Add Biden and Corzine n/t

[leftyandproud]

20. update..please?

[YNGW]

21. just wondering

The party in power usually doesn't call for a vote unless they know they have a victory in hand or want to make the opposition go on record as having opposed it, do they?

[leftyandproud]

24. they will paint dems as obstructionists...

and I admit...it's a smart strategy...it doesn't look good when our guys keep filibustering bills, regardless of how bad they are. The pukes will have plenty of ammo to use next election "We tried to expand medicare with a $400 billion drug benefit and the dems filibustered. Tell them to stop holding up the people's business...yadda yadda yadda"

get ready to see a bunch of those commercials

[Egnever]

25. I think a point of order contention limits debate

to 2 hours. S this vote wasnt really called.

Right now they are holding the vote open past the deadline. Serious deals being made right now on the floor methinks.

[Egnever]

27. Crap 61 39

We lost!

move to reconsider going on now

[YNGW]

30. 61 to 39

Fat chance, but Good Luck.

:cry:

dai

[creativelcro]

31. What's this music on C-Span2??

[YNGW]

32. ACDC

Highway To Hell.

:evilgrin:

yaodmf

[creativelcro]

28. So, is daschle trying something else ?...

[Ksec]

29. sucks

damnit