Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. once observed, “…nothing in this world is ever final — no one ever ends — we keep on bouncing back and forth in time, we go on and on ad infinitum….” Instead of an attempt to define his theory of time, to which this 1970 New York Times quote is usually credited, Vonnegut’s observation could also be aptly directed towards the way things work in Washington, DC and a lot of state capitals across this nation.