“Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping. Does it pass you by? Don’t stop it. It hasn’t yet come? Don’t burn in desire for it, but wait until it arrives in front of you. Act this way with children, a spouse, toward position, with wealth–one day it will make you worthy of a banquet with the gods.” Epictetus, Enchiridion, 15

The trump republicans didn’t wait for it to reach them but reached across the table and grabbed it out of the Office of Congressional Ethics hands, but the people slapped their hands and gave it back. One small victory. Republicans will never be worthy of a banquet with the gods.