A common theme here is that politicians are liars, and the fact that the current liars-in-power are Republicans is just a marginal thing. I may be rethinking that following a quite staggering display from our current leaders. TPM Muckraker has the details, but basically the House Republicans put forward an immigration bill that would, among other things, make illegal immigration a felony. Realizing that perhaps they’d gone a bit too far, they then introduced an amendment to make it just a misdemeanor. The Democrats (or at least 191 of them) and 65 Republicans voted against this, not thinking it should be a crime at all. The amendment failed, and the bill with the felony provision still in it passed the house according to the wishes of the Republicans.

Here’s the thing; the Republicans are now running Spanish-language ads blaming the Democrats (who, you may remember, don’t want illegal immigration to be a crime at all) for making it a felony, despite the fact that it was the Republicans who introduced and passed the bill.

I guess now we know what comes after statistics in the Richter scale of lying; just making stuff up directly in the face of evidence that proves you wrong.