Faux Filibuster Updates

I will be reporting throughout the day the current vote standings as well as any other idiocies emanating from the Senate today.

How it stands currently:

55 Republicans now firmly supporting cloture including Chafee and Snowe

Supporting fauxibluster:

Hall of Shame
Bayh
Murray
Cantwell
Kennedy
Kerry
Sarbanes
Feinstein
Dodd
Durbin
Clinton
Boxer
Schumer
Obama
Reid
Leahy
Wyden
Feingold
Stabenow
Reed
Biden
Jeffords
Dayton
Lautenberg
Menendez
Levin

Voted for Cloture:

Byrd
Nelson
Landrieu
Pryor
Salazar
Dorgan
Lieberman
Conrad
Johnson
Akaka
Nelson (Fla)
Bingaman
Rockefellar
Baucus
Lincoln
Carper
Inouye
Kohl

Update II: A few blogs are reporting Chafee will vote NO on Confirmation NO on filibuster. CONFIRMED

UpdateIII: Chafee and Snowe WILL oppose filibuster. That 54 Rs +10 Ds = 64 to vote for cloture (+ 1 likely) = 65 total (Assuming Ensign is a non vote and Prior abstains.)

Update IV: CNN just announced that the gang of 14 will meet at 3:30 ET. They speculated that the GOF will agree that this is not severe enough to filibuster which will likely put a fork in it.

Update V: Sen. Kent Conrad D- ND will vote FOR Alito. Confirmation vote stands at 57 (For) 37 (Opposed) 6 uncommitted.

OK it's showtime. I predict there will be 66 total votes for cloture, 31 against and 3 abstaining. Let's Rumble!

IT'S OVAH CLOTURE IS INVOKED ON A VOTE OF 72 -25. IT'S A FAILIBUSTER!