The so called gang of 14 fought to perserve the power of the minority party in Congress which I am glad exists today given what’s going on in the world. The dems are the ones that forced the issue to a place they had no business going. I don’t care for McCain but there are times he’s right on certain things.
It did no such thing because Alito and Roberts would have been confirmed anyway using the Constitutional option. The only thing it did was prevent the confirmation of good conservative judges from getting a fair up or down vote. That is why the number of appellate judges that were confirmed in 2005 and 2006 was substantially lower than that of Clinton in his 5th and 6th years.
From: http://www.confirmthem.com/hit_mccain#comment
"McCain should be asked about how the Gang of 14 directly blocked the nominations of Henry Saad and William Myers and indirectly blocked those of Boyle, Haynes and Wallace. In specific, he needs to be challenged on the topic of Haynes."
LOL. Even a broken clock is right at least once a day.