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During a broadcast this week of “The Five,” Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov took aim at the president’s plan to build a grand ballroom in the White House, calling it “gaudy and self-indulgent.”

This is in keeping with the show’s calling card of marrying high and low culinary traditions, transforming the concept of upscale into a state of mind.

“That’s crazy,” Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, told AP, calling the arrangement akin to “treating the payment of our uniformed services as if someone’s picking up your bar tab.”

I’m calling it the biggest infrastructure spending cycle in American history, happening whether Washington functions or not.

Members of the Unite union waved flags calling for the Grangemouth refinery to be saved.