From beginning to end, President Joe Biden’s speech this morning to sell his massive twin spending bills was full of deceit and lies, wrapped in a cloud of malarkey.

He said his “framework” is “fiscally responsible.” This comes as Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, tweets this very morning that “it’s twice as big, in real dollars, as the New Deal was.” When the national debt already is at a record high of 125% of the annual economy, adding spending that is twice as big as President Franklin Roosevelt’s astonishing expansion of government (done at a time of a Great Depression, not at a time with historically low unemployment) cannot by even a semi-rational definition be called fiscally sound.