BIDEN’S BORING FIRST YEAR
THE FIRST YEAR of Joe Biden’s presidency has been precisely the kind of mushy nothingburger that he campaigned on. Many people voted knowingly for such an approach, which sounded restful and predictable after four years of Donald Trump’s high-variance antics. But as every lamp-rubber learns the hard way: Be careful what you wish for.
The so-called infrastructure bill squeaked through in November with what passes for bipartisan support these days, with 19 Senate Republicans and 13 House GOP members backing the $1 trillion in new spending. This bill, unlike Biden’s initial comically elephantine spending proposals, was unremarkable. It successfully exploited the baseline fondness of nearly all American politicians—and the nation’s dads—for spending on roads and airports. (Though it wouldn’t be a modern spending bill if
