[Howlin]

I hope you're right (although I would love to watch them shoot themselves in the foot -- again).

[kabar]

I hope so too. Preventing an up or down vote on Bolton would be a major mistake for the Dems. Presuably, Frist and McConnell have done a good job of counting the votes.

Voinovich is a defector, but if I am reading the tea leaves correctly, even Chaffee and Hagel will vote with the party. It wouldn't surprise me to see Nelson vote with the GOP and maybe a Dem like Lincoln or Landrieu. Conrad may be another since he is up for election in 2006.