Krauthammer: Forcing McConnell to Go Nuclear on Gorsuch Will Be a ‘Self-Inflicted Wound’ for Dems

‘The Republicans would be tempted to go for a far more hard edged conservative than Gorsuch is’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "I think Claire McCaskill should be a pundit. Her analysis is exactly right. I think she is mourning her party, they are a little bit heady because of the victory of sorts that they have had on health care and they are feeling their oats. They don’t have a lot of oats. Gorsuch is going to be on the Supreme Court, no matter what. The only question is, will it require 51 or 60 votes. It would make no sense at all for Democrats to force Mitch McConnell to abolish the filibuster if the Democrats do not produce the votes for closure, meaning ending the debate. You’ve got to have a Democrats who agree not to support Judge Gorsuch, but simply to end the filibuster. If they don’t produce that, they will get an abolition of the filibuster. The reason this is all important, the debates now come the argument now, the tussle now is not about Gorsuch. Everyone knows he is going on the court. It’s about the next nominee. If the Democrats force the hand of McConnell on this boat, abolish the filibuster, and feeding only 51 next time around, when you might even have a liberal seat going up, then, it if it is only 51, the Republicans would be tempted to go for a far more hard edged conservative than Gorsuch is. At that will be a self-inflicted wound by the Democrats."

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