[ak267]

You can also add Lamar Alexander to the list (35*).

* He's voting "no" if it's brought up this year but you take what you can get. Inhofe hinted today that several more "no" votes will occur if the treaty is taken for a floor vote.

I wonder if this monster will even get 60 votes for cloture.

Kerry knows that this is "make or break" for LOST for the foreseeable future. If the GOP gains control of the Senate, and has a batch of new GOP conservatives (Fischer, Cruz, Mourdock, etc.), then this treaty might not get out of committee in 2013 (or for many, many years).

If the whip count isn't there, I can guess that those who support this treaty might either switch their vote (after making a lame excuse) or simply not show up. If you hear the quorum call with several Democrats not on the list, then you know it's truly DOA.

Will Kerry try to force a floor vote? At this rate he might not even get cloture and risks getting egg on his face. I doubt his followers will be that fanatical to go down with the ship...especially those who face reelection in 2014.

Until the vote, get your senators on-the-record on LOST. Even the ones who the press believes are supporters.

GOP: Enzi (WY) Graham (SC) Snowe (ME) Collins (ME) Corker (TN) McCain (AZ) Murkowski (AK) Cochran (MS) Brown (MA) Kirk (IL) Hutchinson (TX)

Lugar co-sponsored the bill...forget him.....good riddance.

DNC: All Democratic supporters are believed to be supporting the treaty.

Even if he loses, Kerry will not quit. He and his globalist buddies will go back to the drawing board to make a few cosmetic changes and try to resell LOST as something new and improved (back home we call that "polishing a turd").

[Montanabound]

Thank you, Sen. Inhofe. He is a bulldog who has helped block a lot of harmful legislation. Unfortunately, he is 78. We need more like him.

[Verginius Rufus]

Lamar! must be thinking of running for another term in 2014....

[wastedyears]

They only need 2/3 of Senators present, not 2/3 of the full Senate to pass it.

[Red Steel]

Good. Pad those ‘NO’ votes against LOST in case of wobbly and coerced senators.

[freekitty]

I hope they stick to this.

[philman_36]

Good! It's in the Congressional Record now.
Still needs to be watched and all appropriate procedural steps need to be followed, including the Executive Calendar procedures.

[Yardstick]

Interesting comments from Inhofe. It’s hard to understand why any Republican would support the treaty. You’d think the fact that it gives the UN the power to tax Americans would be a showstopper.

[Vendome]

Inhofe is a good man.

I liked him when he was mayor.