Four important articles about what's next with the Supreme court seat on Slate - all worth reading

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3. For that first one, we're actually not. What we ARE doing...

...is underscoring the (bullshit) "principle" they went on and on about to not consider Obama's pick, to insist they keep to the "rules" they themselves insisted were so important.

Only a few wild-eyed optimist think it might shame them into not pushing ahead. But you do have to lay the groundwork for making it clear to any fence-sitters that what they are doing is a naked power-play, and it justifies the power-plays needed to counteract it, both now and later.