Friends don't let friends read Wall Street Journal editorials, so regard this a must-not-read message to those otherwise interested in the lobbying, ethics, and earmark reform bill that Congress passed almost unanimously just before the August recess. Here's what you're not missing in today's Bush and Earmarks: a litany of factual misstatements, convenient omissions, and political advice so bad -- urging the president to veto the lobbying and ethics bill on account of its "sham earmarks reform provisions" -- that even George W. Bush will probably reject it. There are too many targets to address them all, but a sentence that captures a level of editorial caprice that would be intolerable on any other page of the paper would be this: With a veto, [Bush would] also be rewarding those GOP backbenchers such as Oklahoma's Tom Coburn in the Senate and Arizona's Jeff Flake in the House who have dared to challenge the free spenders by fighting for earmark reform. Even a wholesale ban on every earmark in perpetuity would do nothing to reduce spending by a single penny. Coburn and Flake know that. Do the Journal editors? I know it's a free country, but if you do read the op-ed, you can't say you weren't warned!