Thursday, August 14, 2008

Drilling lies into voters' heads

Today's Herald-Leader has a must-read editorial about the Republicans' wrong-headed energy policies. Here's an excerpt:

...facts be damned, the Republicans are on message and staying there. They are reducing a complex, deep-rooted problem that's been building for decades into a simplistic slogan: Drill.

...But debate based on facts would take the Republicans off message. And message matters more than truth.

Example: McConnell's bald-faced lie about Democrat Bruce Lunsford's position on opening more of the ocean to drilling.

Click here to read the entire editorial.