F For Fake

Washington, DC — if you can fake it there, you can fake it everywhere:

“Rahm thinks bipartisanship is a way to get what you want — to fake bipartisanship to get what you want,” a senior administration official told me. “He understands that’s a better way to get things done than to be nakedly partisan.”

Just ask the crash test dummies.

Related: “How stupid must Ben Nelson feel tonight? He sold his soul in return for a kickback, he’s reviled in his own state and will likely never again be elected, and now his bribe has been removed from the hot mess that is the healthcare bill.”