I’ve been watching all week as the Republican Party and their right wing blogosphere lap dogs worked overtime to trump up some bogus accusations against Rep. Joe Sestak, accusations that have now fallen apart like wet tissue paper.

Just like the hundreds of similar nontroversies trumpeted by the right wing ever since Barack Obama was elected. My default assumption about every outrageous outrage that comes from the right these days is that it’s bogus — and I haven’t been wrong yet.

If you remember the fable about “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the moral of the story was that eventually people would stop paying attention to the boy, because he had exaggerated and lied so many times before. And then, of course, he’d be in deep trouble when there was a real wolf.

But in this dysfunctional right wing political climate, there are never any consequences for lying or promoting false outrages. They simply ignore the inevitable debunking, then move right on to the next phony story, as if they were never caught hyperventilating over nothing. Then they refer back to the phony story endlessly, as if it were never proven false.

There’s never a real wolf. Just cynical politicians and easily manipulated wingnut bloggers, feverishly enabling a party that’s become unmoored from reality.