All of this is happening, it’s worth adding, in a presidential administration that has wound down both the war in Afghanistan and the drone war.
The coverage of the Build Back Better Act has been an entirely different beast, and it can be hard to parse the logic why.
But the bill has ended up being defined not by its merits, or by the public’s needs, but rather by headline-ready conflicts between politicians.
This is catnip for the political press: the usual partisan conflict with the added thrill of one party in disarray.
These objections have thus been pushed into stories over and over again in print and on cable news, cementing them in the minds of voters.
Both parties have no problem swiftly moving through a gargantuan military spending bill.
Can we do so now at a time when gas costs more than $3 a gallon?. »
