Democrats’ problems are their ideas, not process
Senate Democratic leaders are going to try one more time to vote on the nearly-inert remnants of the Build Back Better bill, while also trying to scrap the filibuster in…
Lying is in the politicians’ DNA
Politicians lie. All of them, regardless of whether they play for Team Red, Team Blue, or something in-between. Lying is part of the job description – or at least it…
The progressive bluff on a resurrected BBB
House Democrats, or at those progressives form the safest of House districts, are intent on reanimating the corpse of Build Back Better. While these would-be Dr. Frankenstein’s know they don’t…
Looking ahead on regulations—parts of the BBB may rise from the dead
Federal regulations are a long standing source of dispute, cost and worry for the private sector, conditions made even greater with Biden administration getting its regulatory muscles ready to flex….
Democrats blame Manchin when they should blame themselves
Congressional Democrats and the press are still trying to figure out what got into Sen. Joe Manchin that convinced him to back away from the Biden administration’s costly Build Back…
The tax hike that could smother Democratic incumbents in 2022
Buried within the Democrats’ sprawling Build Back Better proposal was a tax masquerading as a fee pretending to be a solution to global warming. And it will hit most Americans…
Transportation Department fails at memes and lobbying
The Department of Transportation has decided it doesn’t have enough to do, so it’s decided to fill the idle hours posting memes on social media lobbying for the passage of…
Build Back Better would have devastated the prescription drug market
Among the array of policy prescriptions that were embedded in the Biden administration’s now-bricked Build Back Better proposal was a destructive nostrum that isn’t getting nearly the attention it should….
Build Back Better was even more costly thanks to the gimmicks
The Biden administration’s Hail Mary pass – otherwise known as the Build Back Better Act – dropped like a load of bricks over the weekend, when Sen. Joe Manchin announced…
Build Back Better is a recipe for making everything worse
The Tax Foundation has run the numbers on the proposed Build Back Better spending plan and found it won’t necessarily do any of those things. In fact, it may harm…
