Who knew lesbians had been rendered invisible? And who knew it was the White House press secretary’s job to make them reappear?

Not us, certainly. Yet there she was yesterday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the intellectual bantamweight of the Biden administration, briefing the assembled press corps on The Plight of the Unseen.

“All right,” she began, “happy Tuesday. So, this week is Lesbian Visibility Week. And as the first openly queer person to hold the position of press secretary for the president of the United States, I see every day how important visibility and representation are. Today I’m honored to welcome the cast of ‘The L Word’ and ‘Generation Q,’ two Showtime series that chronicle the friendship, the love, the challenges, and the triumphs of strong, funny, and resilient queer women.”

Having thus taken care of the day’s most pressing matter, KJP shifted her attention to another “L” word — that three-letter beauty that has come to define her work as Joe Biden’s flack.

The word? Lie.

The topic was the debt ceiling non-negotiations currently taking place between our spendthrift octogenarian president and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We call them non-negotiations because only McCarthy seems interested in hammering out a deal. Biden, from the onset, has insisted on a “clean” bill from Republicans — that is, a bill that simply raises the debt ceiling and thereby green-lights this president’s stunning profligacy.

As we noted a week ago, our beggared nation is fast approaching $32 trillion in debt, with the latest $6 trillion having been rung up in just the past two years by the Scranton Spendthrift. (Incidentally, $32 trillion works out to nearly $95,000 per American taxpayer, or $248,000 per American family, or a stack of $100 bills that reaches more than 20,000 miles into space. Tell that to your grandkids.)

And so, with our nation having reached its debt limit, the executive and legislative branches must agree to raise the ceiling or risk default.

Enter Speaker McCarthy, who along with Republican House leadership made a few last-second changes to their debt ceiling proposal in order to keep the GOP caucus together. As the Washington Examiner reports: “The Rules Committee scrapped the repeal of multiple biofuel tax credits, bumped up the timeline for enacting stricter work requirements for social safety programs, and took stronger aim at President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The tweaks were made in a series of late-night and early-morning amendments, including after 2 a.m.”

Imagine that. House Republicans were hard at work, hammering out a bill more than six hours after Joe Biden had gone snuggerbunnies for the night.

And a lot of good it did them. Biden’s Office of Management and Budget released a statement Tuesday morning indicating that he “strongly opposes the [GOP’s] Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, which is a reckless attempt to extract extreme concessions as a condition for the United States simply paying the bills it has already incurred.” The statement continued:

“The President has been clear that he will not accept such attempts at hostage-taking. House Republicans must take default off the table and address the debt limit without demands and conditions, just as the Congress did three times during the prior Administration. The bill stands in stark contrast to the President’s vision for the economy. The President’s Budget invests in America, lowers costs for families, grows the economy, and reduces the deficit by nearly $3 trillion by asking the wealthy and large corporations to pay their fair share. Therefore, if the President were presented with the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, he would veto it.”

In essence, then, Republicans want to reduce the deficit by a modest $4.8 trillion over the next decade by adding some modest work requirements for those on the taxpayer dole, while Team Biden aims to shave a measly $3 trillion by sticking it to the tiny minority of job creators.

Now let’s return to Karine Jean-Piercchio:

In the run-up to the 2022 election, House Republicans promised to put cops on the beat. Instead, they’re fighting to put fentanyl on the street by defend- — defunding Border Patrol.

Their proposal makes clear that only things House Republicans are committed to giving to Americans are increased crime, lower economic growth, and more manufacturing jobs sent back to China.

The speaker’s position is that unless the president and the Senate agree to that job-killing, cost-increasing, anti-farm, anti-healthcare, anti-education agenda, they’re going to default and crash the economy. That’s not just unreasonable, but it’s also incredibly dangerous.

Nearly every word in that carefully prepared screed is a lie — including “In” and “the.”

But we shouldn’t be surprised. KJP, after all, has become an accomplished dissembler, having learned at the knee of Pinocci-Joe himself, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier, the guy whose whoppers have the added detriment of being fact-checked by fact-checkers who need to be fact-checked.

That’s the Biden administration: the undisputed masters of the “L” word.