For, hopefully, one last time, let's talk about the election. For months, President Trump and his allies have been lying to his supporters that the election was stolen. That culminated in a tragic scene yesterday, when a mob of his supporters, incited by the president, overran the Capital building in an act of sedition. There was, to put it lightly, a lot that went on yesterday, and we'll be unpacking it for weeks, but in this post I want to focus on the Republican members of Congress who objected to the counting of electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. All told, 145 Republicans in Congress (138 house representatives, 7 senators) voted to object to the counting of the votes. That's about 68% of Republicans in the House. Initially we'd heard that as many as 14 senators would object, but several of them backed out of the charade after the building was overrun by insurrectionists. Even after the appalling events of the afternoon, the president and his lawyer wer...