This Reflecting Pool fiasco is wearing me out. From the WH skirting Congress to fund it, to the exclusive no-bid contract to a donor, to the sheer audacity of an ill conceived vanity project that fails to consider the practical implications of design, (like blue absorbs heat from the sun rather than reflecting it). Now the administration blaming people for vandalism for securing peeling paint that for the love of God needs to be removed anyway. OK, I feel better now...