There have been a lot of charges, counter-charges, and self-inflicted injuries from Thursday’s White House meeting on a bipartisan “infrastructure” deal, and the White House’s Saturday press release disclaiming Joe Biden’s remarks. Nobody who participated in the charade comes out of this mess looking particularly good, but the “who knew what and when” controversy obscures the fundamental reality that the proposed deal is not a compromise at all.
Here’s the lay of the land: Democrats want to spend some $4 trillion on a bunch of proposals that include some spending to build physical infrastructure but consist mostly of a grab bag of …