On his appearance today on Meet the Press, Howard Dean flagrantly lied about President Bush's new mercury regulations. Dean said:

The president ignored--excuse me, the--his people ignored a report that said that mercury was much more toxic than they suspected and that the rules that the president was putting out were going to a allow more mercury into the air and make things worse.

In fact, the new regulations are designed to reduce mercury emissions from power plants by 70 percent in the next 15 years.

When the federal budget increases, but not as much as liberals want, they call it a "cut." Now, when mercury emissions are cut, but not as much as environmentalists would like, they call that an increase in emissions. We call it a lie.

Michelle Malkin points out another lie from Dean's MTP appearance here.