There is nothing quite so formulaic and predictable as political blog commentary, except perhaps political blog commentary on the appointment of a Supreme Court justice.

This particular bit of Kabuki theater does not interest me in the least. All parties to this have the same goal: to find a way to bend the words of the Constitution into a shape that grants them power. The only possible objection any of them have is that it isn’t their candidate.

It almost doesn’t matter who fills the seat anymore.

I’m not quite as world-weary as J.D. But I’ve lately wondered if politics isn’t like that old Jerry Seinfeld joke about rooting for professional sports teams: We’re all just rooting for laundry. President Obama has been, to my mind, better on the issues that I care about than was President Bush. But he’s not been that much better. Still, it would be really easy to figure that he’s the team I chose and to want to root him on to victory, no matter what.

That would be stupid however.

I take J.D.’s point. The Republican establishment was gearing up for an assault on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee no matter who it was. The same thing would’ve happened if Democrats were facing a Republican nominee. There is a Kabuki element to these political fights, and it is deeply depressing at times.