In 2008, progressives took some giant steps forward in marshalling all the resources available to fight the distortions and use the truth to fight back.
Now we need to apply lessons learned to governing.
In this case, the names haven’t even changed – just the topics and the turf.
Coming up in the fall, the US Senate is going to be debating what I think is the most important legislation we’ve considered in a long, long time to tackle global climate change which imperils everything from our economy to our national security.
But Governor Sarah Palin and a whole host of others are now leading the effort to ignore the costs of doing nothing and distort the costs of doing something.
It’s long overdue for the truth to fight back.
Yesterday, Governor Palin published an oped in the Washington Post that we can’t allow to stand unchallenged.
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