WASHINGTON — With enactment of a serious piece of Democrats’ home agenda in sight inside days, progressives in Congress are rallying, grudgingly however decisively, round a local weather, well being and tax package deal that may be a shadow of the bold cradle-to-grave social coverage overhaul they as soon as demanded.
Bowing to the realities of their social gathering’s skinny majorities within the Home and Senate, liberals seem poised to embrace a package deal that has been written, slashed and rewritten once more to swimsuit the centrists of their ranks — then introduced to them as the one choice to attain even a sliver of their aspirations whereas Democrats nonetheless management the federal government.
“It’s a gun to your head,” Senator…