Sometimes I only read the headline, too, when I’m in a rush.

This is up on the AP wire this morning: “’Gang of 14′ splintering over high court nominee.”

Read on and you realize that it’s not the Gang of 14 that is splitting up but the Gang of 14 is weakening opposition to Alito.

The Gang “is weakening the hand of Democrats opposed to conservative judge Samuel Alito and enhancing his prospects for confirmation.”

Maybe the Dem Gangsters will decide to split and go for a filibuster. But if nothing suprising happens in this nomination, the handwriting is on the wall. Bush wins this one. 2-2 on SCOTUS (with a few-week detour). (I like David Frum’s vote prediction.)