President Joe Biden appeared to fall asleep on Monday at an international gathering to discuss the climate issue he describes as an existential threat to the world. But back in the U.S. the remaining so-called moderate Democrats in Congress are the ones who seem to be asleep as they prepare to vote for an existential threat to private preschools and day care.
Given the multitrillion-dollar bundle of government interventions Mr. Biden is attempting to enact, it’s not surprising that even highly consequential items are getting lost in the legislative shuttle without serious debate.
Last week White House chief of staff Ron Klain retweeted a comment calling the emerging reconciliation bill a grab bag of “ill-designed” programs.
Now Doyle McManus writes in the Los Angeles Times that the current draft includes “many, many ideas — maybe too many for one piece of legislation” and adds: The product is what aficionados call a “Frankenbill,” an awkward creation stitched together from scraps of this and that. (The term refers to the gothic monster, not the former senator from Minnesota.)
It isn’t a thing of beauty… But it’s undeniably big…