And another thing. When Jim Jeffords was getting ready to leave the GOP, the Senate Republicans kept talking about the "will of the voters" and how he shouldn't be allowed to do that -- even though legislators have been doing that through the history of the Republic, and there are at least three Republican members of the Senate who were originally elected as Democrats.

And when one of the evil Carolinians -- Thurmond, I think -- was sick, I distinctly remember GOP legislators in whichever Carolina wanting to change the rules so the Democratic governor couldn't appoint a Democrat to the post. Where was the Republican reverence for The Rules then?

Finally, I also distinctly remember the Bush election team planning to contest the election and try to convince electors to switch if they won the popular vote and lost the electoral. It wound up the other way, of course, and they immediately turned around and said it would be against The Rules to try to get an elector to switch.