Brown Eggs & Ham

The interminable, chalkboard scraping reality TV dramedy that is the Trump administration is now looking at airing a rerun of the recent episode, "Government Shutdown: It's My Country and I'll Break It If I Want To." Earlier this week, Congressional leaders hammered out a compromise to keep the U.S. federal government open until the end of the current fiscal year, and it appears there's a good chance that both houses will pass it. There's only one problem.

The same problem we've been dealing with for the past 2+ years.

The press is all aflutter - "Will he? Won't he?" - will Trump sign the funding bill or will he veto it? If he vetoes it, will Senate Republicans muster the intestinal fortitude, retrieve their spines from cold storage and override Trump's veto? Here's the real question, and no, it's not border security. The real question is: will Congress, or anyone for that matter, focus on the actual problem?

Rampant, unfiltered, unvarnished state-sanctioned xenophobia and racism.

Clearly, Trump and his white supremacist muse, Stephen Miller, are doing whatever they can in their limited time in power to turn this nation into a hermetically sealed loaf of Wonder Bread. And while they're at it, they are taking great delight in making the lives of asylum seekers and migrants, mostly Central Americans attempting to escape a century U.S.-sponsored violence, as miserable as possible.

The ludicrousness of it all is what led me to hearken back to the most outrageously silly stories I ever read - Dr. Seuss, of course! And one of my all-time faves is Green Eggs & Ham. Don the Con made me think of Sam I Am and his tireless travails to find some way to get his friend to try this wondrous gastronomic delight. Sadly, with Don the Con, there's simply no pleasing him, especially since he's been an unrepentant racist sociopath all is life.

Check, please!