Krauthammer on Nuclear Option: ‘Democrats Will Absolutely Rue the Day’

‘The Democrats have stumbled upon the truth, as they do every decade or so’

KRAUTHAMMER: "Happy to be here. Well I'm always amused by the nuclear option debate because it is without a doubt the most spectacular display of congressional hypocrisy, which is saying a lot because whenever the minority party is arguing, it says that this is a very important, indeed a majestic part of our Constitution and as soon as the minority becomes a majority, like Harry Reid, and the Democrats, and Obama, all of a sudden it's a terrible instrument of obstruction. Look, as a matter of the means in which this was done, it was a rather low-down way. This is a fundamental change of the structure of the rules of the Senate and done on strict party lines, which it should not be. Same way, incidentally, ObamaCare, a major reform on party lines -- that should not be. But on the substance of the change, I think the Democrats have stumbled upon the truth, as they do every decade or so."

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