Pols debate pandemic. Feds do something about it

October 2, 2020

Interrupted impolitely and persistently by President Trump, an exasperated Joe Biden returned with a social faux pas of his own: “Will you shut up, man?” Not the sort of performance you would have seen between, say, Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan. As informative as a frog chorus in a springtime pond, this week’s election debate did make you wonder about future stewardship of federal agencies and their people.