Jon Chait flags some classic inside-the-Beltway nonsense from the Washington Post editorial page:

The Washington Post editorializes today on the prosecutor scandal. It turns out, as with most issues, that the blame here can be apportioned between the two parties in precisely equal measures. Funny how that keeps happening.

The key part of the Post‘s Solomonic compromise is explained in this passage:

If questions remain, Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers should be interviewed. They don’t have to testify under oath, since lying to Congress is a crime.

I don’t don’t which is funnier: the Post‘s casual, unstated assumption that Miers and Rove will lie, or its casual, unstated assumption that this is perfectly OK. I look forward to the Post applying this logic to other areas of our legal system. (“Mr. Escobar’s runners should not be searched for drugs at the airport, since importing cocaine into the United States is a crime.”)