"It's hard to dance with the devil on your back"

The politicians in DC are supposed to decide (again) whether the riverboat Delta Queen's wooden superstructure is such a fire hazard that she is now making her last trip. Given the politicians' track record, they will manage to get it wrong no matter what they do. As for me, I'd feel safer spending the night on the steam-powered DQ than driving from one side of Atlanta to the other at the posted speed limit.