Competence in governance at stake for Democrats: The Note
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President Joe Biden and his party ran on getting things done without chaos and drama -- facts that are driving the failure-is-not-an-option mindset.
The TAKE with Rick Klein
The bills are either too big to fail or too small to pass. The real danger for Democrats is if they wind up being both to different factions of the party.
Democratic leaders charged with making the Biden agenda into law are now asking to look beyond the numbers, which is a useful bit of framing when there is no price tag or legislative language or even bullet points to review.
The public debate has obsessed over those same numbers for months. But they actually are beside the point in at least one important sense: What's at stake is more fundamental than how many trillions are spent.
