If you can't beat 'em…

…swipe 'em. Lambert sums it up about as well as it can be done...

Of course, the filibuster fight isn't about the 7 judges, or even about the Supreme Court.

It's about the Republicans, with 51 votes that don't even represent a majority of the country, having the power to do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want to do it.

And breaking the rules to change the rules isn't a very promising start for a party that wants absolute power, now is it?