Jim Talent - Stupid, or Intellectually Dishonest?

Jim Talent is either stupid or intellectually dishonest. I would put my money on the latter, but the former is always a possibility.

He is crowing about his cosponsorship of a bill that would prevent any oil pumped out of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to be sold to foreign countries.

How can anyone with even a single brain cell believe that this measure will accomplish anything other than shifting oil supplies from one port to another, with the only accomplishment being higher prices for the consumers?

How dare he insult us all by claiming to represent us with symbolic idiocy like that?