JAMES TARANTO: E-J DAY!

So what Dionne is saying–although tellingly, he does not use this analogy–is that this is ObamaCare in reverse: Republicans won a legislative victory but overreached, just as Democrats did a year ago, and they are going to pay a political price, just as the donks did in November.

It could happen. But out of curiosity, we went back to see what Dionne had to say about ObamaCare at the time, and guess what? That was a big liberal victory too, not the tiniest bit Pyrrhic. . . . We understand that when Dionne was a kid, the other kids used to call him “four eyes.” Then he got rose-colored glasses, and they started calling him “pink eyes”!

The spin remains the same. Plus, Taranto’s reason to oppose high-speed rail: “Your Car Will Never Go on Strike.”