At last!

From The Washington Post:

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- The first 25-ton steel column for the new Freedom Tower was installed Tuesday at Ground Zero, another milestone in prolonged efforts to build a new office tower to replace the World Trade Center.

The 31-foot-high white steel column, painted with an American flag and the words "Freedom Tower," was picked up by a crane and set into place on the southern edge of the planned 1,776-foot building. Politicians and workers at the site cheered as the column was installed shortly after 11:30 a.m.

Wow, and it only took a little more than five years.

Five years of wasted time while politicians sat around with their thumbs up their nethers and moonbats tried to turn the site into a museum of American perfidy.

I need a drink.