Last week, I watched the vote being taken to determine the Speaker of the House. One by one the representatives indicated if they were for the Republican or the Democrat (or in one case a second Republican). The voting ended and was followed by the slowest counting in the history of mankind. It was quite evident that it didn’t really take half an hour to count four hundred odd votes and that the Republican Mike Johnson must not have sufficient backing to win the nomination. Two phone calls later from Donald Trump on the golf course, and the two Republican ...