A dollar a lie.

Just about every machine or organization has some sort of default setting. Seat belts ding when not buckled, screen savers activate when your computer is ignored too long, magazine subscriptions automatically renew if you don't cancel, and the name, address and contact info of your child is automatically submitted to the Defense Department in the rules of No Child Left Behind. It just makes life easier, especially for the government. But what is the default setting for politicians who lie repeatedly both on the campaign trail and in office. Like when John McCain's thugs say that Barack Obama wanted to teach kindergartners sex ed, when what he was advocating was awareness of suspicious adult behavior as it relates to pedophilia, which most Democrats think is a bad thing. Or that he wants to tax the middle class when he is advocating middle class tax cuts while McCain wants to reduce taxes for the rich. Or the Sarah Palin had anything to do at all with the Bridge to Nowhere, and that she was a shrewd fiscal manager of her big tiny populated state of Alaska when in fact, she put Alaska in debt for the very first time in it's meager history. We need a Default Setting. I suggest we let factcheck.org supervise the statements of our politicians, and should they be found to lie about a position, or their pasts, or another candidates positions or past, the people of the state or city they represent would be charged one dollar. One dollar a lie. I believe that every Arizonan would be vilgilent in making sure Johnny M didn't lie about Barack O. Or W didn't lie about WMD's or anything else he says. I bet that every Alaskan would make sure Moose Palin didn't open her mouth at all. The proceeds would go to the national infrastructure and to a cause that is at the exact opposite in position of the lying candidate. So, in Moose Palin's case, her Bridge to Nowhere, sold my plane on Ebay, Troopergate lies would help build seven new state-of-the-art abortion clinics in Alaska AND an Islamic Mosque in Waslia with a better hockey rink than the one she ignorantly built on private land with federal funds. This default setting would go along way to helping us educate this BIg Stoopit Wurl and frankly would be hilarious as there would be a big sudden quiet, as three quarters of our politicians would not know what to say.