This is now my favorite news story of the week. Congress is in recess, so some of the members go back to their districts and meet the folks. One of them is Congressman Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina. You may remember Joe for having been a jackass the last time we elected a new president. So, he went back home and met the folks, who called out for his Greatest Hit. Maybe they raised lit matches, who knows? From the Post and Courier:

Many in the crowd of nearly 200 responded with a phrase he blurted out during a 2009 joint congressional address by then-President Barack Obama: "You lie! You lie! You lie!" Wilson in 2013 voted against extending the Violence Against Women Act. Aiken resident Dana Phillips said she was disappointed with the town hall, adding that she's embarrassed to have Wilson as her congressman because of his outburst at Obama. Phillips said she attended to show Wilson that not everyone agrees with his views in the heavy Republican district. "I moved here from somewhere else," she said. "If I had known before I moved here that this is the man who stood up in Washington, D.C., and yelled at our former president, I would not have moved here."

As far as I'm concerned, Wilson's outburst at President Obama was the starting gun in the eight-year Don't Let The Black Guy Be President competition. There is nothing that could happen to Congressman Wilson in public that I would consider to be too humiliating.

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Here's my second favorite story of the week so far, from the NYT (with h/t to Booman). They're screwing up the White House Easter Egg Hunt.

"FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near," said a Twitter post directed at Mr. Trump; the first lady, Melania Trump; and the president's daughter Ivanka Trump. "Please reach out!" The message came from Wells Wood Turning, the company that supplies commemorative wooden eggs for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the 138-year-old celebration that has drawn 35,000 people to the South Lawn in recent years. The staff of the company, based in Buckfield, Me., wondered whether the Trumps planned to continue distributing the wooden eggs as party favors, or whether they were even going to have a White House Easter Egg Roll at all.

How do you possibly screw up the Easter Egg hunt? Well, you screw it up the same way you're screwing up much of the rest of the Executive Branch: by not hiring people.

By that time, the ovoid uncertainty had raised a question perhaps not as consequential as investigations into Russian interference in the presidential election, a legally dubious travel ban and a collapsed health care bill, but no less a window into the inner workings of the Trump administration: Could this White House, plagued by slow hiring and lacking an on-site first lady, manage to pull off the largest, most elaborate and most heavily scrutinized public event of the year? "It's the single most high-profile event that takes place at the White House each year, and the White House and the first lady are judged on how well they put it on," said Melinda Bates, who organized eight years of Easter Egg Rolls as director of the White House Visitors Office under President Bill Clinton. "I'm really concerned for the Trump people, because they have failed to fill some really vital posts, and this thing is all hands on deck."

My guess? Steve Bannon is deconstructing the administrative state one wooden egg at a time.

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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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