Not only has Joe Biden conceded that the “Inflation Reduction Act” (this week celebrating its one year anniversary) is misnamed, and is really just a green energy pork-barrel program, but it turns out that even as pork barrel it fails the most basic political test, which is that pork barrel spending should go to districts that your party controls. That’s the whole point of pork barrel redistributionism. But guess what?

One reason for this is actually quite simple: red-controlled districts are likely to have less local bureaucracy in the way of windmills and large solar farms (on top of being more rural to begin with). But it is stunning to see that the Biden Administration’s incompetence extends this far.