Papa Joe Biden was belatedly dragged from his recliner this week to settle escalating hostilities between warring Democratic siblings over a multitrillion-dollar agenda. No shock that his two days of conferences achieved nothing.
Mr. Biden campaigned as the last word grown-up and chief, and his administration stored up that facade for months. However the Afghanistan debacle was a reminder that Obama Protection Secretary Robert Gates described Mr. Biden as having botched practically each foreign-policy difficulty for 40 years. As we speak’s social gathering struggle over its $3.5 trillion reconciliation invoice is likewise a reminder {that a} man who spent a Senate profession drifting with the Democratic tides is ill-equipped to step up with a imaginative and prescient that may unite battling factions.
