Unwritten Rules: Should they be written down?

According to Mitch McConnell and various incendiary...republican senators, pundits and presidential threats, it's a known, unwritten rule that a black president cannot make Supreme Court appointments in his last year in office. The unwritten rules are pretty clear about that and you could look it up, if it were written down somewhere...

It's the same with the minimum wage which, every asshole knows, was never intended to be enough to feed a family on! I've often seen it posted on the internet that "...by definition the minimum was never intended to be enough to raise a family on..." Some assholes are pretty definite about this. However, you can't look it up either as, no one wrote that down at the time. What were they thinking? Well, at the time, not that.

The odd thing is, the president's duty to appoint a Supreme Court justice is written down.  It's in the Constitution. It's very curious that self-proclaimed "strict constitutionalists" would go against that document after the sudden death of another purported "strict constitutionalist" in favor of unwritten rules.

You always have to put yourself in the other guys shoes and ask yourself if you'd be OK with someone invoking unwritten rules that favor them over the written-down rules. This is a pretty basic rhetorical question that's ordinarily easily answered but, we are dealing with republicans here. They are about the dumbest sons of bitches ever created. I just wrote that down so, it's official!

This senate could find itself trying to invoke some unwritten "Weekend At Bernie's" rule where Justice Scalia could serve postmortem- indefinitely- or until a republican makes president. Whichever comes first.

Republicans like to repeat things as often as possible so they can make people believe they are actual rules. Like "...shall not be infringed" thrown in there at the end of the 2A means (to them) that if they lose an election, they can over throw the gol-durned gubmint! No. Or, "Of course, we're a Christian nation!" No. Plenty of them here but, we were founded on a separation of church and state, to specifically keep church out of the government. You can look it up and you can misinterpret it but, it is written down.

All rules should be written down. That makes for a more orderly society, one where if you're not sure about something, you can look it up. Beats the snot out of people making the rules up on the fly.