GOP LYING LIONS
While serving as an NBC News producer, I covered the late US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the quintessential "Senate lions" of the 20th century. He earned the title by his towering intellect, legislative expertise, and a monumental public service across four presidential administrations. The "Senator's Senator" was a brilliant social scientist "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”As a master of floor debate, he chaired the Senate Finance Committee and successfully collaborated with Republican Bob Dole to save Social Security from insolvency in 1983.Pre-Senate Influence.
Historians now argue the Senate's polarization is in a structural shift rather than a character decline, operating in a more nationalized, lower-trust environment. Or perhaps the shift moved from lion to lying?