If Florida residents or tourists want to get from Tampa to Orlando they can get on Interstate 4 like everyone else. How many ways does Gov. Rick Scott have to say it?

Scott doesn’t care if one of these bullet trains can get you across Central Florida faster than NASA can lay off workers. He doesn’t want it. Please get that through your wide-eyed, stimulus-loving, unrealistic brains.

This week was an easy one to round up, really. It was a repeat of the last two weeks.

Scott says the state can’t afford a train and we’re not taking the federal government’s money to build one. Backers of the train say, "But there must be a way." And Scott fights them and wins. There’s the last few weeks in a nutshell.

No wonder Scott doesn’t want a statewide database tracking who is taking prescription drugs. These train people must have him reaching for the Xanax.

This week’s drama, such as it was, was set in the state Supreme Court, where a lawyer for Sen. Thad Altman, R-Viera, and Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, argued to the justices that Scott simply couldn’t decide not to build the train because, basically, the Legislature laid the tracks in the law back in 2009. Ignoring what legislators did back then amounts to him vetoing legislation from another session, which he can’t do, the legislators’ lawyer argued.

In what was a pretty high-profile debut, the governor’s brand new general counsel, Charles Trippe, who probably just figured out this week what the office password for the Lexis account is, said the governor wasn’t violating any laws by not taking money for a future project. And on Friday, Trippe was a winner, making him 1-0 in his new job.

The court agreed with Scott, who once again found himself saying thanks, but no thanks, to Washington. Scott spoke Friday morning by phone with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who now will likely give the money to another state.

There might be another day or so of this. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said he was throwing a “Hail Mary,” to try to find out if there was still some way that the local governments in Central Florida could build the train, but most train backers were acknowledging defeat.

Meanwhile, Scott managed to get to work on trying to get the state to work this week. He named a new director for Enterprise Florida – which works to bring other companies to the state – after swooping into Mississippi to lure Gray Swoope away from Haley Barbour. Swoope will be tasked with trying to get companies to open up shop in Florida the way he did when he got Toyota to build a plant in Mississippi.

Scott also announced what may be his first really big job-creation project, saying on Friday he wants the state to spend $77 million to dredge a deeper Port of Miami, allowing it to accept the larger ships expected to pass through the Panama Canal.

Just as critics of his resistance to high-speed rail were saying that his opposition would cost the state 24,000 jobs, Scott basically one-upped them. Actually, he 6,000-upped them, claiming that deepening the Miami port would create 30,000 jobs. Take that, train lovers.

The Sierra Club turned Scott’s mantra about the train back on the port, saying that there was no way it wouldn’t be plagued by cost overruns that would in the long run cost taxpayers.

HEALTH CARE APPEAL HEADED HIGHER

Meanwhile, another Supreme Court should decide whether the federal health care law is constitutional, a Florida federal judge said this week. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had a strange order – granting a stay of his earlier ruling that he said was meant to block the health care law from taking effect. He’s willing to put it on hold for a week, allowing the feds to continue to move toward implementing it, as long as they appeal it within that week.

Vinson humbly acknowledged that his won’t be the last word on whether the Obama administration’s health care law remains law or not – but blasted the federal government for moving too slowly in getting an appeal going. This thing ought to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and quickly, because it’s such a big deal, he said.

Florida was the lead plaintiff in the suit and will next be arguing at the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, where the federal government said it would go next with the case.