The most open process ever

At least, according to Nancy Pelosi. America has a massive spit take in response. [Link]

In a city full of career politicians obsessed with projecting selfless devotion to "the folks back home," hardly a day goes by without truckloads of the crudest half-truths, willful misrepresentations, and blatant exaggerations being passed off as certified fact.

Most of the time, we greying ink-stained wretches just shake our heads in weary amusement that these groveling minions of transparent flattery can say this stuff with a straight face and think we don't see through their self-serving humbuggery.

Once in a while, though, one of our esteemed public servants lets slip a whopper so patently outrageous, so completely and obviously false, that we are left in unrelieved astonishment, knowing the speaker either has now lied for so long he no longer can distinguish fact from fantasy, or he thinks we can't.

Such is the statement Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that "there has never been a more open process" in Congress than the succession of back-room deals, closed-door bickering, and arrant manipulation of official data that has marked the flim-flam legislative birthing of Obamacare.