Message board denizen RonK has written a masterful post on his weblog: Let the winter games begin!. The post is lengthy, and not easily quotable, but offers the best analysis of the State of the Senate I have seen anywhere.

RonK takes us from the battle over the Senate's still unfinished Organizing Resolution, to options available to Chaffee, McCain, Z. Miller, and Lott, to the GOP power struggle, to intrigue in Mississippi.

It's a must read.