Definitive debunking today by Biden himself of the false claims by some here that the $3.5 trillion

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12. Oh, absolutely

Biden's a stand-up guy, and takes responsibility for what his administration does, which is a sea change from the "leadership" the country was treated to during the previous four years. Back then, everything that went right (or at least not disastrously and lethally wrong) prompted endless carping from the former guy about how he wasn't getting the credit he deserved. Anything that went wrong - and that was a daily if not hourly occurrence - was someone else's fault, or the incompetent work of an incompetent underling, or any of a dozen other dodges. The media couldn't be bothered.

But wildly popular and useful legislation being unnecessarily held up because one party (can't say/won't say which one) is playing political games with people's lives? There's gotta be a controversy there somewhere, because a straight reporting of the facts would make the Republicans look bad. So we get diverted with the "did you really write this" nontroversy.