The New York Times Editorial Board recently published a disingenuous lecture directed at Republicans on the need to pass so-called “clean spending bills” without policy riders attached to them. In the recent past, unrelated ideological riders have jeopardized “must-pass” spending bills from moving forward and driven our great nation to the brink of a shutdown, so the Editorial Board claims.

The Times goes on to list three of the supposedly worst examples of partisan riders to legislation that allegedly jeopardized the success of the overall bill.