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The indomitably forgiving painter Bob Ross, who assured us that mistakes are simply “happy accidents,” didn’t usually talk politics. But it’s worth remembering when he dipped into punditry upon drawing an errant evergreen: “That’s a crooked tree,” he joked. “We’ll send him to Washington.”

The crooked trees in D.C. took the unusual step this summer of clawing back funds they had already approved for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which closed its doors on Sept. 30, putting public radio and television stations nationwide in dire straits. The works of the late Bob Ross, a former Air Force drill sergeant who continues to delight PBS viewers worldwide with “The Joy of

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