CNN is SPECULATING PEOPLE!

[jsamuel]

They know that the gang of 14 is going to meet 1 hour before the vote. THAT IS IT!

They don't know if it is to support or stop a filibuster.

KEEP CALLING/FIGHTING EVERY WAY WE KNOW HOW!

[goclark]

1. Just called Joey L, say he is voting NO

and is stilll "thinking" about filibuster.

I gave them a piece of my goclark mind.

I told him as hard as I worked for him to be Vice President and as easy as he let GW BE president, I was truly disappointed!

I told them that he let GW steal that election and now he is letting GW steal his basic values.

Call that fools office.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Agree. CNN is trying to scare on the fence Senators. CNN=WH tool.

[helderheid]

4. K & R - this is corporate media, people! WE have the power.

[rainy]

5. Agreed, that is what I said in my post on the CNN report

They sure did speculate a lot. It was amazing. I'd love to see them eat their words.

[LisaLynne]

6. Yep -- Corporate media PSYOPS!!!!

They don't know jack. They don't know what we've been up to!

[rockymountaindem]

7. Who knows? It could be to break up the so-called "Gang"

If some of the Democrats in there, like Lieberman who already said he thinks a filabuster is on the table, decide the fliabuster is worth it, the group could fracture and cease to exist. Of course, they could all just decide together to oppose a filabuster and end the whole debate, so who knows?

[Walt Starr]

8. Our only hope is for two Republicans to jump ship

If they keep Chaffee and Snowe in line, it's all over.

[Justice Is Comin]

11. Chaffee just did.

Saw it on Raw Story.

[Bumblebee]

14. but he won't support the filibuster -- so it's meaningless

[Botany]

9. Egg Zac Lee!

Millions of dollars are being spent to tell us that it is a done deal.

Remember CNN changed the exit poll data @ 1:30 AM on 11/3/04.

[debbierlus]

10. KICK

[IndyOp]

21. CNN allowed the exit poll data to be changed -

It was the pollling company (Mitofsky) that changed the data and passed that on to all media outlets. So blame Mitofsky & CNN!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[iconoclastNYC]

12. God i hate CNN.

I just saw that too. They act like they have a crystal fucking ball.

[burythehatchet]

16. but..but..but..

its the most trusted name in news
:shrug:

[iconoclastNYC]

20. I didn't know that! I like "Fair and Balanced"

So I watch FOX...they report...I decided! :puke:

[kpete]

13. Thanks Jsamuel

I was about to give up. LOL

[iconoclastNYC]

15. dKOS debunks CNN's speculative spin

The Gang of 14

CNN's Ed Henry (given his shilling ways and frankly, inaccurate reporting in the past, take this with a grain of salt) reports that the Gang of 14 is ending the filibuster. How they are doing this exactly is not explained by Henry. Presumably they are voting Yes on Cloture. But the question is are they doing so as a Group action? Or as individuals? See the individuals have mostly announced they are voting for cloture so Henry's "scoop" is um, pretty thin. These are the Gang of 14:

Republicans * John S. McCain III, Arizona * Lindsey O. Graham, South Carolina * John Warner, Virginia * Olympia Snowe, Maine * Susan M. Collins, Maine * R. Michael DeWine, Ohio * Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island
Democrats * Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut * Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia * E. Benjamin Nelson, Nebraska * Mary Landrieu, Louisiana * Daniel Inouye, Hawaii * Mark Pryor, Arkansas * Ken Salazar, Colorado

The only Senators of interest here are those who have announced themselves as No votes. They are bolded. The rest SUPPORT Alito so they are not STOPPING anything.
Senator Lieberman, you do Ned Lamont a great favor if you vote for cloture.
Senator Chafee, you do Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown a great favor by going back on your word and voting for cloture on anti-choice Alito.
Senators Inouye, Pryor and Salazar, your vote will be remembered as Alito is seated on the Court for next quarter century. You were unwilling to continue to discuss and try to persuade on a nominee YOU REJECT! The debate can continue a week without damage to the Republic. Your votes are hard to understand. Democrats will find them hard to understand. History will not understand.

[jsamuel]

2. thanks

[seabeyond]

17. no reason for meeting if repug has 60 votes. i like that perspective

and seems more likely anyway. why would they meet if they knew they had the 60

[DearAbby]

18. Remember people, The Media is the GOP SPIN MACHINE..LIARS!

[kpete]

19. From firedoglake

UPDATE: Gang, I am getting very conflicting information on the Gang of 14 story from Ed Henry. What I'm hearing is that they aren't meeting until 3:30 pm today and that the Dems in the group are split on how they will vote -- which means that cloture is still very much up in the air. I'm beginning to smell a GOP story plant with Ed Henry at CNN (Oh, shocker! I know...). So, to the phones and the fax machines -- if they are resorting to story planting, they are nervous. And that makes me smile. Nothing like a little grassroots action to scare the bejeesus out of the folks who thought they could pop the champagne a little early, eh? Here's hoping...

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_01_29_firedoglake_archive.html#113864175709266446

[Fovea]

22. Man, I hope to see

them eat their words, dry, with no salt.