New York Times columnist Ezra Klein’s quest to get his fellow liberals to ditch their love for bureaucratic red tape took him to Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on Thursday, where he presented Stewart with the Biden Administration’s Byzantine 14-point plan on how to improve rural broadband service. After several minutes and multiple F-bombs, all Stewart could do was declare, “I’m speechless.”
Stewart’s descent into finding out that Build Back Better wasn’t that good at building anything began as Klein informed him of the first four steps, “We have to issue the notice funding opportunity within 180 days, that’s step one. Step Two, which all 56 state [and territorial] applicants completed, is states who want to participate must submit a letter of intent. After they do that, they can submit a request for up to $5 million in…
