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@rickhasen @RMFifthCircuit Doubt lame duck consideration either: base gives Rs credit only for intransigence, even in defeat. Thus play will

@rickhasen @RMFifthCircuit be to try to filibuster Clinton choice. Even if D's eliminate Court filibuster, R's will have resisted to end.

@yeselson @rickhasen filibuster to what end?

@RMFifthCircuit @rickhasen The base wants revanchist rage and resistance--the "end" isn't to achieve the best outcome it can get. It's to

@RMFifthCircuit @rickhasen "achieve" implacable opposition for its own sake. What do you think the endless votes to repeal the ACA have

@yeselson @rickhasen that has no down side. Downside risk here is immense to conservative interests (which I share)

@RMFifthCircuit @rickhasen Well, then you better get McConnell to push back against the revanchists. They don't measure opportunity costs

@RMFifthCircuit @rickhasen the way you do. And, in fact, as David Frum suggested years ago, the R's have paid a great price for rearguard