Today's Belle

Whether you're a politician, or an operative, or a pundit, or a reporter, or a casual observer, the main skill you need to develop is Vote-Counting - the ability to gauge where people are in the process of deciding which way they're most likely to go on any given issue.

Belle and Beau and the gang have been pretty good at it, but they always make it clear that anything can happen between the overhearing of whispers in the cloakroom, and when it's time to go on record and cast your vote in public.

My 2¢:

On the GOP side, this is a continuing fight between congress critters who at least want to make it all look like 'regular order', and the bomb-throwers who are champin' at the bit to create a full-blown constitutional crisis.

Monday, January 6th, is when Congress gets together to certify the electoral votes - and I'm not at all sure that anybody knows what happens if there's no Speaker by then.