In a column a couple of days ago, I said that, if I were a liberal Democrat, and a supporter of “Obamacare,” I would be embarrassed at the Democrats’ tactics: their trickery and extreme partisanship in Congress. (I elaborated, of course.) A reader now sends a quotation from Uncle Miltie — no, not Berle, Friedman: “Desirable or not, any end that can be attained only by the use of bad means must give way to the more basic end of the use of acceptable means.”

That is an uncle to trust.