Thank goodness Mark Gisleson got up before I did.
With his takedown of Katherine Kersten, he saved my whole morning and allowed me to write about male cleavage instead.
"In the wake of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, DFL leaders want to raise the state gas tax to fund transportation needs."
Starting out with a lie is a pretty rotten opening. This paragraph is a lie because Kersten's first four words are "[i]n the wake of," implying a response when in fact DFL leaders have tried to raise the state gas tax in consecutive legislative sessions. Raising the gas tax is a continuation of existing DFL policy. Repairing infrastructure is a core Democratic issue. Kersten would have you think that the DFL is responding to the collapse when in fact they generically anticipated it and worked to avoid such a tragedy.
And it just gets better.
