Do the Republicans seriously believe what they are saying ?

Do they really believe that taxcuts will generate all these great revenues to balance the budget? Do they really believe they have to cut programs for the poor and elderly because of the cost of the hurricanes but it is ok to put the cost of the war in Iraq off budget? Do they really believe this shit? Do they think the majority of Americans believe this shit?? Are these people really humans?

They make the sounds they hear around them, and believe they are meaningful sounds, but have no real idea what the sounds mean.

There's no way in hell that supposedly sane and intelligent people can willingly prop up such a complete failure.

Many of my Republican friends swear I am looking for something to gripe about and piling up, but dammit Bush has completely fucked up everything he's touched. We've long since passed the time to speak out against his failure.

How many of us would be able to totally clusterfuck everything at work and still keep our jobs and never get reprimanded.

Come on, he may be the President, but he is not above criticism. Nor is he above some sort of job review. In this case, he is not different than you or I.

(I hope all that makes sense. I'm pretty fired up right now.)

But some of them truly believe this BS.

the rest of them are just souless, greedy hatemongers who think that Malthus was a genius and eugenics is "good science":grr:

believe in it's authenticty...

I have a feeling they do, I have heard the same rhetoric repeated on the streets outside of the political spectrum..

It is easy to bring em down to earth though, the trouble is, when they are down so low, they tend to cover themselves under huge tents in order that the light does not blind them but fail to see that by doing such, that in itself is what keeps them blinded, not the light they hide from more often than not..

Why We Lie by David Livingstone Smith, 2004.

Page 76:

Self-deception helps us ensnare others more efficiently. It enables us to lie sincerely, to lie without knowing that we are lying. There is no longer any need to put on an act, to pretend that we are telling the truth. A self-deceived person is actually telling the truth to the best of his or her knowledge. Believing one's own story makes it all the more persuasive.

Although there have probably always been unconscious mental states, the capacity for self-deceptive thoughts led our ancestor to actively and intentionally, albeit unconsciously, keep certain thoughts out of the spotlight of conscious awareness. A portion of the mind became specialized for generating and nurturing falsehoods maintained side-by-side with an unconscious grasp of reality. The capacity for language must have vastly enhanced the capacity for self-deception. Language allowed us to lie (in the narrow sense of the word) to others and to whisper self-serving falsehoods to ourselves. A portion of the brain developed special expertise in dishonesty, cleverly weaving useful illusions out of biased perceptions, tendentious memories, and fallacious logic...

Consequently, modern human beings are naive realists who take for granted the accuracy of their misrepresentations of the social world, but actually systematically misconstrue both themselves and other people. Social psychologists have long known that a good deal of what we consider "objective reality" is actually the product of our "unnoticed interpretative manipulations." Before evolutionary psychology, it was not possible to understand exactly what drives people to distort their perceptions, memories, and logic in this way. A biological perspective helps us understand why the mental gears of self-deception engage so smoothly and silently, imperceptibly embroiling us in performances that are so skillfully crafted that they give every indication of complete sincerity, even to the performers themselves.