HE WOULDN’T BUILD THAT: “Procrastinator in chief avoids debate prep, visits Hoover Dam instead,” Twitchy notes today, quoting (among others), a Tweet with a press pool photo from Mark Knoller of CBS who writes, “Pres Obama (center) admires the engineering feat that is the Hoover Dam.”

Which seems an odd destination for Obama, considering that, as Joel Kotkin noted in a 2010 article titled “How Liberalism self-destructed” at the Politico, “Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior Deanna Archuleta, for example, promised a Las Vegas audience: ‘You will never see another federal dam.'”

As Kotkin wrote at the time, “Harold Ickes, FDR’s enterprising interior secretary, must be turning over in his grave.”

MSNBC is for-gainst the idea of new dams, but American Express have put their corporate imprimatur on their elimination.