Here's something I bet you thought you'd never see!

According to GOP aides, the resolution would require the House to hold an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill.

What? Republicans demanding an up-or-down vote on healthcare? Huzzah!

But what could possibly be going on here? We need more context.

House GOP leaders will try to force the House to vote on the Senate’s healthcare bill. Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.), who defected from the Democratic Party last December out of frustration on healthcare, will offer a resolution barring Democratic leaders from using the so-called “Slaughter solution.”

Ah, I get it now! Republicans think they deserve to have an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill, but the Senate doesn't!

Why are we going through this self-executing rule exercise in the first place? Because Senate Republicans won't allow an up-or-down vote on making the changes contained in the fix bill. If they'd agree to an up-or-down vote on that, then the House could drop the self-executing rule (scary!) plan and the use of reconciliation (nuclear!) completely, and we could just have a good ol' fashioned who's-got-the-most kind of vote.

Which Republicans would then lose.

Which is why they instead find themselves shamelessly screaming for up-or-down votes on healthcare, after all this time dedicating themselves to preventing exactly that.

You really can't make this stuff up.