You should have read my posts. I knew it was nonsense from day one. Of course the Pubbies can't give up on the nuke option. This is all about moving the pawns around to knock off the rook, and lay the traps for the votes. This is all about SOCTUS. Analysis, analysis, analysis, and think, think, think, my boy, and soon enough you will want to be a lawyer, which will finally afford you the tools to make your mark on the world. Plus the pay is better than being a tech grunt, and your job is not exportable or subject to competition from illegals.
I will not, however, EVER be a lawyer. Heck, it's too late to change careers, and I'm not going back to school in my 40's. Besides, I love computers. I really do. I have a gift with them -- some of my coworkers take a while to analyse a problem, or program a solution, but I (seriously) can kinda just swoop in and approach things from a really high level and undercut most of their times by an order of magnitude.
Well, hold on for a tick -- if I'm going to have an open mind about your other points of view, perhaps I should at least LOOK at lawyerin'. Maybe I could be a fancy schmanzy high-tech lawyer wot specialized in computer law.
I, for one, welcome the improved relations with my ideological kin.