Jon, It’s not surprising at all he’s saying no to filibustering the first SCOTUS vacancy. Seems like smart politics–doing it right now makes the Dems look more reasonable even as the fourth anniversary of Priscilla Owen’s nomination comes up this week. And I don’t know how they’d manage to successfully spin a SCOTUs filibuster come midterms. Would be suicidal politics to do that filibuster, I would think.