I noted yesterday that the Gang of 14 compromise I admit I fumed about may not have been a bad deal after all.
Because of the compromise, Bush’s three most conservative nominees were “unfilibustered” and now sit securely on the federal bench: William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, and Priscilla Owen.
So how can Democrats now cry “extraordinary circumstances” for a similarly tempered Supreme Court nominee? (That was a rhetorial question… I expect they’ll find a way.)
As Jim Angle of Fox News reported:

Supporters of the White House say the compromise under which those judges were confirmed set a clear definition of what is acceptable and what is not.
“I think it really takes off the table the ability of the Left and the Democrats to argue on the basis of judicial philosophy that a nominee is not fit to serve on the Supreme Court.” [Quote by Ben Ginsberg of Progress for America]:

Angle reported that at least two Republican members of the Gang of 14 will walk away from the compromise and support the constitutional (nuclear) option if Democrats filibuster based on whether a nominee is conservative: Senators Lindsey Graham and John Warner.
(I’m told there are actually “several” of the seven Republicans who have indicated this but don’t have documentation for others.)
Closed Angle in his report:

[See Fox video clip, “Constitutional Chaos” for entire story.]