Feh!

People that went to Harvard, were elected to the Senate, and were regarded as the cream of the conservative legal crop want to overturn the election to make this moron a quasi-dictator.

It really is hard to fully wrap your head around.

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) January 6, 2021

Unless "Going to Harvard" is an irrelevant data point. Or it's not irrelevant, but rather a causative factor. Which to choose, which to choose?

Mike Pence just gaveled down a point of parliamentary inquiry as "debate" and therefore out of order.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2021

This will get interesting, no?

Paul Gosar objects to Arizona and he has a senator. So it begins. Now you know why his family hates him.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 6, 2021

God, this is going to take days.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 6, 2021

I'm listening/watching on-line to C-SPAN. Charlie's right. This is why real court proceedings are never portrayed realistically on TeeVee. Trials are boring, too.

Gosar, by the way, is a Representative from Arizona, so he's objecting that the election was fraudulent as to Trump, but perfectly legitimate for him, in Arizona.  Huh?

The gentleman from Louisiana is blaming the "Democrat" party for not following the "process" laid out by state legislatures (which one?  Don't ask such picky questions!).  His argument is already BS, for me (the idea that only the Legislature can decide how elections are performed, that Courts and agency heads (in Texas the SOS is an elected office, by the by; probably true in all Southern states, frankly), is ludicrous.  And it still doesn't allow an escape clause where Trump was defrauded, but not, say, Gosar.

This is, in short, some fine frontier gibberish.  (He also points out "we have to fix this," "we" being the Congress.  As the courts have pointed out 60 times, too late for that, bucky.)  "Let's get back to rule of law"?  What, courts are not part of that Constitutional process?

Ah, it's all pointless.  The only interesting point is that what's going on outside the building is having no effect on what's going on inside the building:

Whoa: Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol as Congress counts the Electoral College ballots inside pic.twitter.com/LiQhaa5KkQ

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6, 2021

Heck of a scene of the @NRSC chair the morning after Ga https://t.co/aEXQGb9t38

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 6, 2021

Rep. Zoe Lofgren is doing yeoman's work and speaking quite eloquently against this nonsense. But again, it doesn't matter. What matters are the votes in the end, and the objectors don't have the votes. Gym Jordan opens by appealing to the size of Trump's rallies. Surprise, surprise!  He really is Trump's Mini-Me.  Feh!

We're going to go through this recess-debate-vote charade at least 5 times today/tonight, but the critical point has passed: The VP is only recognizing the duly certified slates of electors, which means that when (not if) these objections fail, Biden and Harris will be certified.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 6, 2021

So the GOP is going to make the same arguments over and over and over again? Who do they imagine is listening? The people outside?

When they start comparing THEMSELVES to Hitler... https://t.co/4Ecmu2ZXA7

— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 6, 2021

This is their "base"?

"This election, actually, was not unusually close," McConnell says. "The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016... If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 6, 2021

Yeah, don't get too excited about that.

Mitch has now moved into Both Sides territory. Sad.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 6, 2021

Like I said, it all comes down to the vote. The rest is just theater; of the absurd.