So much to comment upon this TGIF! Let me begin with Biden's Build Back Better Botch.

Over at the "Commentary" podcast, the gang has offered what I think is a correct diagnosis of this Democratic debacle. They point out that right from the beginning, the messaging was all about the money: six trillion or 4.5 trillion or 3.8 trillion or 1.5 trillion $$$ or whatever. What the bill actually contained seemed of decidedly secondary importance, even to its proponents. The Biden Administration and congressional Democrats gave the impression that they were only interested in spending as much money as possible, and had no coherent plan.

Bernie Sanders runs around insisting that BBB is "wildly popular" but the truth is that by and large people don't know what's in the bill. Nor are they on board with the idea that spending a boatload of billions and trillions will address the issues that actually concern them. So with miniscule congressional majorities and no real popular support, BBB is going nowhere. Hence the ludicrously transparent pivot to "voting rights."

The problem is compounded by the incoherence of Biden himself. If the President can't provide an understandable explanation of his own signature legislation—what chance has it got?