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Sohn: Mike Pence and the GOP are set to waste more precious time today

New York Times photo by Nicole Craine/Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign event in Milner, Georgia, on Monday for the Republican candidates in Georgia's senate runoffs. Under the Constitution, the vice president is tasked with overseeing the tabulation of each state's Electoral College votes during a joint session of the House and Senate.
New York Times photo by Nicole Craine/Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign event in Milner, Georgia, on Monday for the Republican candidates in Georgia's senate runoffs. Under the Constitution, the vice president is tasked with overseeing the tabulation of each state's Electoral College votes during a joint session of the House and Senate.

Time waits for no one, as the Rolling Stones used to sing.

The chorus was adapted from an age-old saying that the Stones repurposed for a bittersweet ballad some 47 years ago at another time when America was having turbulent growing pains.

The saying and song are still true – and always will be as long as our planet keeps spinning to cast light and shadow from the sun.

On Tuesday Georgia voters spoke, marking a change – or not – toward a new day of growing diversity. And today a few handfuls of reckless congressional Republicans plan to continue wasting time and fueling the doubts of other Republicans about the legitimacy of the 2020 election – an endeavor that is as foolish as it is destructive. Through it all, Vice President Mike Pence will be in the hot seat as he serves as the presiding officer while Congress meets to confirm the Electoral College’s results.

Pence almost certainly will have to declare Joe Biden the rightful winner, even as his boss Donald Trump refuses to concede.