This week in the saga

The week the bill comes due. Friday he refuses to sign a housing bill that Congress has already passed, in protest at a Senate that will not pass his election act. The same day the other side asks to keep talking and is told the ceasefire is over. Saturday a thousand missiles are locked and loaded, aimed at a country whose government has threatened his life. Sunday morning the oldest ally in the Senate is dead, and the flags come down to half mast until Saturday evening at six. Monday the waterway is declared open with or without them, and the blockade is put back on one nation only.