Voters of Minnesota's 1st District, if you want a Cheney-Bush lackey of the stripe that has brought America to its economic knees to serve you in Congress, then reelect Gil Gutknecht.

If you want a real change then elect Tim Walz, who challenges the outrageous falsehoods on which Gutknecht's candidacy rests.  Gutknecht in a recent debate seen nationally on C-Span uttered what might be the most egregious falsehood of the entire current campaign season when, responding to Walz's warnings about the U.S. economic picture stated that the current economy is "the best of the last 25 years."

That statement along with the pattern evidenced behind it supplies more than enough ample reason to conclude that Gil Gutknecht is unfit to serve in Congress.  Padding the record is a frequent reality of political life, but to call the current economic picture our best in a generation is an outrage.

Two quick visits to the U.S. Debt Clock and the National Priorities Project renders Gilknecht's claim absurd, not to mention harmful in substituting illusion for reality.  An earlier visit today revealed that the U.S. debt stood at $8,572,789,691,629.70.