Great essay B, but the right knows exactly what it doing. They are experts at politics of spite. What my mother used to call, "cutting off their noses to spite their faces". Our indignation fuels the masses. However, for the big money folks the tax cuts, oil leases, deregulation, etc. will pay them back 100 fold. Plus, they are planning for a Totalitarian State that means they won't have to spend money of elections ever again. So don't count the buzzard off the ballot before it hatched. SCOTUS is bought and paid for and they will offer decisions that make Dred Scott, Bush v. Gore, and Citizen's United look positively prudential.