News For the NYT: You Don't Know Anyone's Reason for Acting

Politicians don't always tell the truth. Most school kids know this, but apparently the NYT believes otherwise. That explains why it tells us that:

"the reason that many conservative Republicans refused to vote for the [debt] agreement" was that the debt to GDP ratio would still rise even with the proposed cuts. Actually, this is what many conservative Republicans said. That is how it should be reported, as in "many conservative Republicans said ......"

The NYT also said that this is the...