Here's Ken's Talking Point
Now, What was the question?

As we were getting ready for church, we witnessed Ken Mehlman's extraordinary performance on Russert's show. My husband and I broke out laughing at his obvious return to talking points (Bush's Veterans' Day speech), even if the points were totally unrelated to Russert's questions. When Russert got really tough, Ken's response was parroting, " 9/11, 9/11!" The new/old stategy is to continue to tell the Big Lie over and over until people believe it must be true, since they heard it so many times. Josh Marshall reacted a little more angrily, as he pointed out in TPM.

RNC Chair Ken Mehlman, now with twice the lying power!

Here's the clip from Mehlman's appearance this morning on the Russert show. And I honestly found it hard to keep up with the full number of lies and half-truths that rolled out of his mouth.

I know that some of my more cautious readers will blanch at my use of the "L" word. But when so many falsehoods and misleading statements are rolled atop each other, there's really no other description that fairly categorizes what the man is doing. As for why he's doing so, it's not just that he has to as head of the RNC. He was part of the deception and perfidy to the constitution. So like the president and his advisors, Mehlman's dishonesty today is just self-protection.

After pointing out numerous lies, TPM concludes:

What this country will end up needing is something like a Truth and Reconciliation Commission because what the country needs is not so much for particular people to go to jail but for the lies and the lies to cover up earlier lies to stop. The country can't get past what has happened or move forward until we can get the truth on the table, deal with it and move on.