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Sen. Lugar in the news:

The second highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin (D-IL) told a local TV station on Wednesday that the economy is "strong" despite the S&P downgrade. While largely in line with the White House's views on the downgrade, his comments came the same day that Democrats attacked Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) over a near identical quote.

"I still think the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are sound," Durbin told FOX Chicago News. "I don't care what S&P says."

In a press release yesterday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee condemned Lugar as "out of touch" for telling a local TV station: "The American economy is still strong, that we're making progress although it's very slow in terms of job creation, and that we still have a dollar that is the world currency and we are still selling bonds to everybody all over the world despite the S&P downgrade."

Never mind the Democratic hypocrisy here, or the duplicity or the wanting-to-have-it-both-ways or whatever you call it. That's the kind of political flim-flam both parties engage in all the time. The real news is that Lugar agrees with Democrats on the pooh-poohing the S&P downgrade, which isn't going to raise his stock with the tea party types in Indiana who already think he's gone too far to the left.

And if this economy is stil really sound -- highly dubious -- it's no thanks to the thieves and clowns in Washington.