Republicans are going out in force this week to deliver the talking point handed down by the Ministry of Truth. "Reconciliation is the same thing as the nuclear option." Only when Democrats do it.
Karl Rove isn't sitting around at his desk at Fox News playing computer solitaire. He's just dreamed up a new lie, and wants to make sure that it is delivered by all of his Republican friends and Fox News colleagues. "The Reconciliation Process is the same thing as the Nuclear Option." You can go into Google News and get nearly 300 hits for "nuclear option and reconciliation." However, if you go back to 2005-6 when Republicans were threatening to use the nuclear option and make that identical search you will get a handful of hits. Not a single one makes the statement that they are the same thing. During this time period, the Republicans were using Reconciliation to give us things we really needed like George Bush's tax cuts for the rich.
This slogan has been created whole cloth by today's Republicans as a desperation move to protect health corporate profits at the expense of U.S. citizens.
Given that Republicans are knowingly and cynically passing off a lie that can be easily proven, you would expect the "left-leaning" biased news organizations to do a little fact-checking and call them on this mendacity. Look around and you will see this nonsense being passed off as news. Hitler knew the power of the Big Lie and so did McCarthy. Sadly, the United States of America is becoming a reality show based on the writings of George Orwell.