When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced the idea of lending federal aid to state governments as a “Blue State Bailout,” his opponents, including Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, had plenty of good counterarguments. Unfortunately, the one that seems to have caught on the most was the one where liberals attack Republicans for not being richer.

That’s not what they thought they were doing, of course. Cuomo and his cheerleaders in the press seem to have thought they were “fact-checking” McConnell’s claims about which states have fiscal imbalances.