The many dangers of the lame duck that gave rise to our "Bullets Dodged" series raise the question - do we really need a lame duck period at all?  Akhil and Andy recall the "secession winters" of the past and how 2020 shared aspects of all of them; and of course, we have suggestions for how to solve it.  As for Lisbon, this is not the first episode of ours that references "Casablanca..."