Bunning lies about unemployment rate

For all the Democrats' travails, the Republicans always manage to stay at least several steps further from reality.

And if that includes lying outright, then I guess that includes, well, lying outright.

After President Obama's State of the Union address last night, right-wing Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky) issued this statement: "When the President took office, Kentucky's unemployment rate was at 7.6 percent, and it is now at 10.7 percent."

In the immortal words of Depeche Mode: wrong!

When was the last time the state's jobless rate was as low as 7.6%? I think we were all bopping around in polyester pants under a big silver disco ball the last time it was that low.

In fact, Kentucky's unemployment rate has improved during Obama's first year in office - for the first time in ages.

But nobody calls out Jim Bunning on his lies, because he's Jim Bunning, after all.

Maybe I should bring up how Bunning abuses his foundation's nonprofit status to pay himself a huge salary.