Salon.com News & Politics | War Room

Salon.com News & Politics | War Room: "Olympia Snowe -- the moderate Republican senator from Maine who is a member of the 'Gang of 14,' the group of centrist senators who pulled that body away from the brink of the 'nuclear option' (eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominees) last year -- says that she will not support a filibuster. Under the terms of the gang's deal, if Democrats in that group support a filibuster, Snowe would vote in favor of eliminating the filibuster. "

okay, maybe the dems have some spine and a longer time horizon than I do, but that somehow seems highly unlikely...