“No more Bridges to Nowhere,” declared the president who, as a senator, voted for the Highway Reauthorization Bill, which included $225 million for the Bridge to Nowhere, and who voted against Tom Coburn’s amendment to redirect $125 million in funding for the Alaska bridge toward reconstruction of a New Orleans bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Better late than never, I suppose. This was part of Obama’s event calling on Congress to renew legislation on transportation funding, declaring, “When it comes to infrastructure, we shouldn’t be playing patch up or catch up, we should be leading the world.”

Somehow we’re playing “catch up” two and a half years after enacting “the largest new investment in America’s infrastructure since the Interstate Highway System.”