What about the endless smirks about the administration's difficulties, whether genuine or self-imposed?
That has brought financial stability and a string of impressively organised Olympics but also a deadening hand of endless rules, administration and literature.
Instead, the Obama administration should invite officials from the UAE and Qatar to discuss the matter and put American jobs ahead of endless government subsidies.
Part of Mr. Obama's problem is his administration's endless dithering.
"The nightmare scenarios are endless," one of the administration's senior officials said.
She was tired of administration and endless meetings and wanted to spend more time meeting ordinary women in person.
Mr Rove raises the spectre of the Democrats taking over Congress and then using their newfound power to humiliate the administration with endless investigations.
Inevitably, the White House is reported ready to add a platoon of lawyers to defend against the kind of endless harassment the Clinton administration suffered in the last Republican ascendancy.
It was a natural disaster that underlay that episode - but the administration's endless war on terror means ongoing scope for what are in effect privately contracted armies to take on crisis and emergency management at home in US cities. Thugs in America?
If we do nothing but stare, sputtering, at the television or limit ourselves to angry signs and chants in reaction to the Trump administration's endless edicts, then we allow Donald Trump to set and shift the agenda, day by day.
