A comparison could be made to the journalistic debate over "false equivalence" in political reporting. For reference, see: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a

A comparison could be made to the journalistic debate over "false equivalence" in political reporting. For reference, see: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/a-bountiful-harvest-of-false-equivalence-analyses/280452/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/a-bounti... For entertainment value, I took a paragraph from Gruber's post and made a few substitutions: If you want to argue that the whole budget debate stinks, and that all of these politcal parties are abusing it, I agree. But if you want to argue that conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers are in the wrong, and poor Democrats and liberals are victims of one-sided abuse, I’m going to have to disagree. If there’s a difference between Republicans and Democrats in this war, it’s not over nobility, but rather over how well each side has played the game. It’s looking more and more like Democrats made a strategic blunder... Though you should not take this too seriously, the structural parallels are amusing, superficial or not.