Thank you Sen. Lautenberg!

We all know the Bush administration struggles with the facts, but, thanks to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), we have yet another example of just how detached Bush’s appointees are from reality.

Look at this video of Sen. Lautenberg taking Bush Budget Director Jim Nussle to task for the president’s support for ineffective and unproven abstinence-only programs.

Apparently Nussle hasn’t read any of the independent studies disproving the “abstinence-only” approach.

And remember those stories about how President Bush refuses to read newspapers? Well, apparently Nussle is doing the same, which means he missed the countless stories in the last couple of months about the alarming rise in the nation’s teen-pregnancy rate. I mean, after all, he is the budget director. Isn’t keeping up with the news in his job description?

After you watch the video, please go thank Sen. Lautenberg for putting this issue front and center. Email him here or call him here: (202) 224-3224, (856) 338-8922, or (973) 639-8700.