They lie like they breathe

My colleague Isaiah J. Poole cites this op-ed by the conservative Heritage Foundation's president and points to its big lie and the public's "solid preference for conservative policies." Not so, as Media Matters and the Campaign for America's Future's new report "The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth" proves to a fare-thee-well.

What I love about Feulner piece's are the small lies - which are pretty big in themselves. He cites embattled GSA head Lurita Doan's pledge to make a nine percent spending cut across the board as "the first time in decades an administrator actually cut government spending."

The sun, too, sets in the east. My God. It took fifteen seconds to learn that the same GSA cut spending with splendid effectiveness in FY 1998. Agencies across the government did so in the 1990s. Read about it all here. (It all was Al Gore's fault.)

There is no such thing as a "conservative think tank." They just make stuff up.

[UPDATE: They're only following the leader.]

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