Why can’t liberal defenders of the light-bulb law admit what they want to do? Why can’t they admit that their favored light bulbs are (1) more expensive and (2) perfectly legal?

The debate is about whether it should be illegal or not to sell and buy bulbs, such as the traditional incandescent, that don’t meet an arbitrary efficiency standard determined by industry lobbyists and lawmakers. Yet liberal bloggers repeatedly pretend that Republicans are trying to block the expensive high-efficiency bulbs.