For months, a seriously misguided group of Republicans have been keeping up the charade that there is a bipartisan infrastructure process going on. But Democrats keep making them look like idiots, over and over again. Even as Democrats keep reminding us that they are merely using Republicans to lend more legitimacy to the radical plans they intend to ram through on a purely bipartisan basis, this group of 11 Republican collaborators keeps coming back for more.

Later today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to hold a procedural vote on the bipartisan bill, even though it doesn’t exist yet. And not just that the finer points of legislative text need to be ironed out. The group of Republicans and Democrats are still working out many of the details of the actual spending and financing pieces of the legislation.

Meanwhile, even if those talks blow up, Axios, after speaking to Sen. Tim Kaine, reported what many of us have long assumed: Democrats are already planning to add the $600 billion in new spending in the bipartisan bill to the $3.5 trillion in additional spending they are planning to advance via reconciliation…