Washington watch: The Old Folks’ Show
“America, the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world, has become an utter clown show,” thunders Andrew Donaldson at Spectator World. The Senate vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, a “speeding spree” from “the gerontocracy,” was a “16-hour ordeal” that “would get a nursing home shut down and written up on charges.” Chuck Grassley, 88, “confessed to taking 10-minute naps,” while “friends” of Dianne Feinstein, 89, were “whispering about how there she really was.” Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders, 80, wasted hours on hopeless amendments, then voted for the bill anyway, “a fitting microcosm of the whole sad affair, ” a “manufactured drama, needlessly drawn-out grandstanding with an outcome that’s never really in doubt.”