Today’s cartoon & column

Just when you thought the saga of the Reflecting Pool couldn’t get any dumber, it has.

The president has deployed the National Guard to protect the sanctity of the puddle of hazy IPA that used to be the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Curious citizens have apparently been wandering down to the primordial soup to bob for paint chips. This is considered vandalism and anyone suspected is subject to arrest.

The Guard hasn’t formed a perimeter or anything, it’s usually just a half dozen guardsmen wandering around the pool sweating their government issue drawers off, but still, that’s a half dozen more than were deployed on January 6. In fact, there are currently more people in jail for fishing lead paint chips out of a national landmark than there are for beating Capital police with a flag pole. Equal justice for all!

The reason you get lasting consequences for dangling your digits and not for befouling Nancy Pelosi’s desk is simple, drawing attention to the Reflecting Pool embarrasses the half wit who turned it into Shrek’s house. If it had truly been Obama’s fault, as the president tried to claim, Trump would be offering a bounty for the largest paint chip.

But it wasn’t Obama’s fault, or Biden’s, it was Trump’s. The self proclaimed greatest real estate developer in the world couldn’t remodel a ditch without spawning an algae bloom that makes the Salton Sea look like the pool at the Miami Fontainebleau.