lies "everybody" believes

Here's a good one -- the Democrats have lost their majority in the Senate.

Hey, it's in the papers. One of Atrios's readers tipped him off to this in the Philly Metro:



That's right. The Republicans now have a 41-59 majority in the Senate. That will make it a lot easier for Harry Reid to tear up and wail, "But we don't have the votes!"

As opposed to Reid's standard lie, it's a little-known fact that the Democrats could easily get rid of the filibuster threat forever with just 51 votes, if they wanted to.

But they don't want to. That's the point.

They'd rather pursue their corporate agenda, protesting the whole time that they don't want to do what they're doing, but that the Republicans are forcing them to it.

What despicable hypocrites they are!

For other lies that "everyone" believes, see "The U.S. is not an empire."