Facts? Who needs facts when you can have Republicans and Democrats trading misleading charges about the stimulus plan? Republicans say the $825 billion plan is just a vast waste of money, filled with non-essential items that Democrats want to push through under the over of “crisis.” They add it will take way too long to effect the economy.
Democrats have a different take, defending every dollar as critical to the recovery. House leaders defended money for contraceptives as necessary to help states (45 of which are now running budget gaps) offset …

Nothing pisses me off more than when people seem to think that facts are some sort of variable that don’t have a set value. I’ve been a reporter for 22 years and it doesn’t matter whether I’ve covered politics or business or crime, there are always people who seem to believe that if they say something is true, repeat it, get the gullible media to then pick it up, that it will become a fact. Unfortunately they are often correct.
In my reporting I have always tried to correct the record …