Rejoice, Ye Peoples of the Land, ’Tis Infrastructure Week Again!

The looming Government Shutdown Theater and annual Failure Theater Kabuki is for after the joys and triumphs of Infrastructure Week!

President Biden meets with US Senators about his infrastructure plan, 29July2021. Photo by The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After much hoopla and delay it might finally be Infrastructure Week! in Washington DC as the US Senate moved procedurally in the first step of passing the more than a trillion dollar infrastructure bill.

NPR has the details, sort of:

Hours after bipartisan Senate negotiators reached a deal on an infrastructure package, the chamber voted to advance it, setting in motion a final vote on the bill in the coming days.

The procedural motion was approved 67–32, with 17 Republicans joining all Democrats to begin legislative action. The top Senate GOP leader, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, was among those voting to move ahead with the proposal.

Earlier on Wednesday GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio told reporters the group…