Durbin & Reid: Nontransparency for Everyone!!!

Harry Reid can rightly claim to be making history.

If he passes health-care reform, he'll depend on a series of historic "firsts." It'd be the first time Congress had passed a major new entitlement program without bipartisan support; it'd be the first time it passed such a program without popular support; and the first time it passed such a program without knowing or particularly caring what's in it.

John McCain complained last week that he had no idea what constituted the highly touted backroom deal that Reid sent to the Congressional Budget Office for evaluation. The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin, reassured McCain that he didn't know, either. This is bipartisanship Harry Reid style - nontransparency for everyone.