Infrastructure Week Is the Farce That Keeps on Far

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Infrastructure Week Is the Farce That Keeps on Farcing
Plus: gearing up for the march.

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And if Marquette can’t be the Jesuit team in the Elite Eight, I’m glad it’s Loyola of Chicago. AMDG, baby!

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Final four!!

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politic...ill-farce/

Mar 24, 2018


Well, another infrastructure week has come and gone, and it ended in farce. The real horrors came on Thursday, when Congress passed its spending bill. But on Friday, we were treated to a serious vaudeville act at the White House in which the president* tweeted that he might veto the spending bill sent to him from Congress, which nobody believed because this president* said it.

Then he signed the thing, and the dwindling band of Trumpite fanatics went bananas, so the president* announced that he simply will never do such a thing again, scout’s honor, pinky swear, my hand on The Art of the Deal.

And then he shot the moon, calling for Congress to give him a line-item veto, which it can’t, because the line-item veto was declared unconstitutional 20 years ago and it would take a constitutional amendment to revive it—none of which, I guarantee you, the president* was aware of. He was just trying to get through the next few minutes.

The bill itself is stuffed with the good and the bad and the evil, as most such bills are. (Is there really a reason for Congress to make sure minor-league ballplayers are not paid minimum wage?)

Susan Collins discovered to her dismay that the healthcare fixes she was promised were not included. (Hello, sucker.) But the president*’s comical ditherings all day reminded me of a similar example of public leadership.

Jesus, take the wheel.
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Most NCAA brackets end as disasters. Some are like Love Canal, wreaking their havoc slowly and imperceptibly until it’s too late to stop them. Some are more sudden.

My bracket this year is Chernobyl. However, my favorite tournament stat comes from the women’s side. UConn won its opening game against St. Francis by 88 points. (I had St. Francis and 83, dammit.) The Red Flash went down firing. They attempted 57 three-point shots. All guns blazing. I like that in a team.

And if Marquette can’t be the Jesuit team in the Elite Eight, I’m glad it’s Loyola of Chicago. AMDG, baby!

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