I hate to mention it, but the executive branch of the government is coming apart faster than the person who's supposedly in charge of it. Infrastructure was supposed to be the great bipartisan achievement of this administration; at the very last, unlike many of the other proposals, infrastructure is an actual problem to be solved. It was the national issue that played most directly into the president*'s alleged expertise as a "builder." Now, though, it seems like your bridges are going to remain perilous for at least a while longer because there's a whole new group of movers and shakers who don't want to be seen with the guy. From The Hill:

The council, which had not yet been assembled, would have provided the White House with advice on how to spend billions of dollars to improve the nation's roads, bridges and railways.

"The president's Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which was still being formed, will not move forward," a White House official said.

Nobody wants to take meetings with him. The mayor of Phoenix would rather he not show up next week. They call the wind Pariah, and we are heading full tilt into the last reel of Citizen Kane.

With nukes.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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