Roy Blunt’s TARP claims: You know it’s bad when the AP calls bullshit

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Back in 2008, with the country’s financial system on the brink of collapse, U.S. Rep Roy Blunt played a central role in bailing out the banks, herding votes from his fellow Republicans and even negotiating the bill’s details.

But two years later, as he tries to fend off Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to become Missouri’s junior U.S. Senator, Blunt (R-Fantasyland) is running from that reality so fast, and so sloppily, that even the typically-tame Associated Press is smacking the Senate-hopeful around.