No doubt on Monday, Premier Joe will stride into the House brimming with confidence and sporting the smirk that has become his USP - a "Unique Selling Point". The fact that Premier Muscat's is a smirk that borders on being arrogant in the extreme is very telling.
That sort of USP appeals to people for whom arrogance and ill-concealed bullying is second nature. They are the sort of individual who - especially if protected by the privileges of the House - have no qualms about making disparaging remarks about anyone who dares show any lack of undying fealty to the regime.
In this context, consider Minister Michael Farrugia's remarks about retired European Court of Human Rights judge, Giovanni Bonello, a man whose shoe-soles Farrugia, like most of the rest of us, isn't fit to lick when it comes to integrity and intellect.
Consider others, much lower down the food chain, who, because they are protected by Premier Muscat, use lying and bullying as their weapon of choice in their mission to intimidate and cow opposition
Consider also Minister Evarist Bartolo's remarks about the chairman of the Malta Financial Services Authority, who drew Bartolo's fire apparently because he doesn't wish to toe the (Labour) Party line and condemn the PN's voluntary loan scheme.
Consider others, much lower down the food chain, who, because they are protected by Premier Muscat, use lying and bullying as their weapon of choice in their mission to intimidate and cow opposition. What these oiks don't get, of course, is that their fascist tactics just don't work.
Quite the contrary, in fact.
They don't get it simply because, as a certain type of Labour exponent always does, they measure everyone else by their own abysmal standards of craven cowardice and barely functioning IQ. Luckily, they are beneath contempt, serving only as an example of the worst of Labour, an embarrassment to many decent Labourites.
Premier Muscat will be coming out of the House, on Monday evening, basking in the warm glow of his defeat of the PN's confidence motion.
It is - and always was - a foregone conclusion that the motion will be defeated. No-one who has the even the feeblest grasp of politics could ever have had even a smidgen of doubt. Only a total idiot, in fact, would imagine that any honourable members on the government side, dependent as they all are on Premier Joe's munificence, could even conceive of voting him out.
The vote will serve a very real purpose, however.
Remember, it comes in the context of resignations and dismissals that are reverberating around the world in the wake of those pesky Panama Papers fluttering about.
It comes in the context of Premier Joe having nailed his personal colours firmly and inextricably to the mast of his Super Minister and his Chief of Staff.
It will force Evarist Bartolo, Edward Scicluna, Louis Grech, Leo Brincat, Michael Falzon, Manuel Mallia, Godfrey Farrugia, George Vella, Joe Debono Grech, Charles Mangion and Helena Dalli to stand up and be counted.
I didn't choose those names at random: give them some thought and I'm sure you'll work out why I named these honourable members and didn't even bother with the rest.