During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, spokesman Josh Earnest dropped a bit of a bomb, saying President Obama had regrets about his 2006 support for a filibuster to block the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito, a George W. Bush appointee:

“He regrets the vote that he made, because, frankly, as we’ve discussed, Democrats should have been in a position where they were making a public case …. They shouldn’t have looked for a way to just throw sand in the gears of the process. And frankly, looking back on it, the president believes he should have just followed his own advice.”