Lived a lie

I don't know about you, but I'm fed up with listening to the GOP complain that a process that has taken a year lacks proper deliberation and is being jammed down their throats, or that using the reconciliation process to tweak the Senate bill after the House passes it is unprecedented and unethical. It's a crock, and the fact that the media keeps playing dumb and playing along is absurd at best. So it's good to see E.J. Dionne tackle the nonsense head on.

Republicans, however, don't want to talk much about the substance of health care. They want to discuss process, turn "reconciliation" into a four-letter word and maintain that Democrats are "ramming through" a health bill.

It is all, I am sorry to say, one big lie -- or, if you're sensitive, an astonishing exercise in hypocrisy.

The only news there is that someone is willing to point it out.