The Week Biden’s Agenda Hit a Wall - WSJ

It also cast a spotlight on key strategic decisions made by the president and his aides: Right out of the gate, Mr. Biden pursued a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 aid bill that some economists warned would spur inflation. He decided to push an employer-vaccine mandate that was legally questionable and politically controversial. And he cast passage of voting legislation as an absolute moral imperative, even though it would require persuading moderate Democrats to reverse longstanding positions on Senate rules.

Sometimes when you go for broke, you end up broke.

Three times in the same year? That’s not bad luck, that’s a pattern.