Have you considered the possibility that the Senator is simply too stupid to be allowed to speak?

Just got in from work, Jade, but wanted to let you know how much I learn from your blogs in general and how much I enjoyed this one in particular.

Others have and will address the issue you raised about lying politicians and the MSM.

But I wanted to join you, for a moment, in enthusing about rail. I am not up on current train technology, so theMagLev possibilities strike me as being, well, thrilling.

Our generation -- at least those of us on the east and, to a lesser extent, on the west coast -- took train travel for granted as we were growing up. Commuter trains, over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house trains, north/south trains and cross-continent trains.

And so it grieves me that, today, there are not only many children, but also many Gen X or Ys who have never known the ease of them in getting from point A to point B. The opportunity to really see, once outside urban and suburban centers, what the country, or the continent, looks like in between. (I even moved once by train, using the 3-day/3-night San Francisco Zephyr run to get my family and pets back East via Chicago and, switching trains, on to Washington. The trip was fabulous. We occupied two adjoining Pullman rooms, and fully utilized the bubble car and the dining car; we were both stimulated and soothed as we wound our way through the salts flats of Utah and the Colorado River valley, etc. Another civilized route was from New York to Montreal. Not to mention the trains in Europe, etc..

When, as an adult, I moved back to the south, I often drove from Charleston to Atlanta, and then on to Birmingham to see extended family and friends. And every time I drove the tedious five + hours it took to get to Atlanta, it struck me that 100 years ago I could have made that trip by rail in four hours. That's progress, eh?

Anyway, how may we help promote rail? For freight, as well as the transportation of people from Point A to Point B?

I missed this Jade, workin on my own stuff.

Would you permit someone to teach HS history and give a lecture about the time when Lincoln shot John Wilkes Booth?

Or how about a civics professor that discusses the 48 states of the Union?

When do you draw the line between opinion and fact?
How do you draw the line between opinion and fact?

Well it is not our call. All we can do is read the WSJ and when Rove writes about a w administration that never took place, we must stand up and protest.
Send in a comment to WSJ. Do a blog here. Cross post somewhere else.

Check out Mediamatters, The Beast, Salon, read the articles that have some substance to them and leave comments there praising the people who are standing up and printing the truth.

Some days, I wonder if I am crazy but one of my regular outlets, if not all of them, demonstrate that I am not crazy and that there are lies being disseminated through the media.

We need blogs like yours, Jade. Good job. And look at the fine comments you receive.

I find eds to be a little on the conservative side at times. Not as regards your blog.
So good job. Keep on keepin on.

What if we encouraged the Dems to underscore the inclusion of this MagLev rail system when they talk to their peeps?!? Make it a talking point for the dems, a big victory. This is a place where Obama et al just made a whole lot of jobs and will eliminate thousands of car miles.

As for the ignoramus from Oklahoma, someone should tell him the wind farm is what is gonna makes those trains and he's taking on Boone Pickens when he rails against them. [Oh that's punny, rails!]

Watch the Daily Show on Monday and Colbert. They know how to get the word out that the Republicans are really embarrassing themselves and their party. I'm optimistic they'll catch that. If not, you can write them too.

It was probably because of guys like the senator that we have No Child Left Behind because evidently, he was.

Great post!

"You cannot lead if you lie."

You can for eight years.

I guess we nailed two vices with our posts, Jade. (Lying and Theft)

I did rec'd yours last night by the way.

By the way, Jade - excellent as usual- and rec'd!

Every public official has constituents. There is however, a huge difference between an actual constituent and a political contributor. It would be interesting to know the campaign dollars that come from true constiuents as opposed to contributors. Anyway, the contributors are the purchasers of the lies and we, the voters, are the target sales audience. This translates to our elected officials effectively working on commission. The more lies they sell, or that voters buy, the greater is their commission. By any measure a really messed up scheme. The real wonder of it is there are so many dumb bastards out there buying this shit. Voters are little more than mushrooms waiting for the liars to come and harvest them. Pathetic.

Which is worse, lying with a straight face, or listening to those lies with a straight face?

Any news broadcaster who interviews a Republican without intervening with the truth is an accessory.

Maybe there should be a harsher penalty for lying on the floor of the Senate. All that stuff is read into the record so it's easy to prove.

Shouldn't there be a Senate "penalty box"? Or is there one and it's just called the Republican side of the aisle?

Deception is the lingua franca of Empire.

Reminds me of a certain senator from Alaska -- a convicted felon though that is not relevant here -- who famously described the Internet as a bunch of tubes.

Nice post. Thanks.