There must be something in the water over there on 15th street. Today's example of false equivalence is basically the same as yesterday's, and comes from a reporter at the same paper. Here's Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes, in an online discussion:

Robert Barnes: Now, Philadelphia, you can certainly fault Republicans for how they are approaching the Sotomayor nomination, but I'm not sure you can make a case they are doing anything that Democrats did with previous nominations.

The wording is garbled, but it's pretty obvious that Barnes meant that Republicans are not doing anything that Democrats did not do with previous nominations.

Which is, of course, nonsense, for reasons we've covered previously.