last saturday driving back to philadelphia after this cnn show my car was eaten by the godzilla of american potholes. just after i exited the verrazano bridge in staten island. i'm not unique. aaa calculates 50% of motorists have experienced damage to their vehicles as a result of potholes in the last five years. in my case i sat on the road for five hours. plenty of time for me to google the word "infrastructure." i learned that once every four years the american society of civil engineers, asce gives letter grades to our nation's infrastructure in 16 different categories. in 2013 the overall assessment warranted a d-plus. in the category of roads, we received a "d" for poor. the remainder of the report card has grades that would make any parent wince. take a look at these -- airports "d," hazardous waste, d, levees d-minus. all horrible.