As ever, no one says it better than Shakespeare; “Man, proud man / Dress’d in a little brief authority / Most ignorant of what he’s most assured … plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As makes the angels weep.”

The words, from Measure For Measure, come to mind as one contemplates the Democrats, temporarily the party in power in Washington, misrepresenting, contorting, and scrambling to pass the most expensive and perhaps also the messiest piece of legislation in history.