Bob Novak has a good piece on where Dodd is coming from. Here’s how I understand the state of play. (Remember: the Dems want more documents from the administration, including intelligence intercepts and documents related to the dispute over Bolton’s assessment of Syria.) Biden is most obsessed with the Syria documents and it seems as though a deal could be worked out on those today. That would isolate Dodd who is obsessed with the intelligence intercepts. The paranoid theory about those intercepts–that Bolton requested names caught on them to try to retaliate against intelligence analysts he was arguing with–has been blown out of the water by Pat Roberts. He talked to Negroponte and says that none of the key names from Bolton’s disputes appear in the intercepts. But Dodd isn’t backing down. It’s a sign of the kind of pressure Democrats are under to toe the party line here that Mark Pryor who voted for cloture the first time says he would vote against it this time. It seems the administration should be able to find some way to throw Dodd enough of a bone that at least it weakens the opposition of other Dems, even if it’s never going to win over Dodd himself. A cloture vote is set for 6 p.m., although the situation is very fluid. The one result Republicans want to avoid is a cloture vote where Bolton actually slides backwards from where he was last time. Stay tuned…