I've really become infuriated by political commercials. Obviously, this is nothing new, but it's time for me to rant.

Saxby Chambliss is a big FairTax supporter. This commercial sponsored by the DSCC has got me up in arms:

"Chambliss sponsored a 23% national sales tax on nearly everything you buy."

"We can't afford Saxby Chambliss."

It seems to be a recycled campaign from a previous election, because I remembered reading this in The FairTax Book:

"In one particular race for the U.S. Senate in 2004 ... there was one national party ... that spent more than $4 million on TV ads condemning the other party's candidate for supporting the FairTax. The ad said that the evil So-and-So wanted to add a new 23 percent sales tax to the price of everything you buy. No details other than that. The ad was, simply put, dishonest."

Dishonest is not nearly as strong a word as I would have expected from Neal Boortz. Dishonest is a good term to describe a tale about who broke the living room lamp. This is a multimillion-dollar vote-swaying fraud. The lie of omission effectively makes the statement a complete fabrication, identifiable by anyone remotely familiar with the FairTax proposal. It is specifically designed to prey upon the votes of the ignorant.

My problem now is that I don't know where to direct my outrage. Although this is clearly an advertisement in favor of Jim Martin, it is not officially endorsed by his campaign. As far as I can tell, the DSCC is a private organization, and it is well within the rights of citizens to use their own money to promote vicious lies.

I guess all I can really do is vote for Chambliss.