Here's a nice little tidbit to chew on before tonight's SOTU address. I was doing some reading for my class entitled "Political Psychology" (at a medium-sized liberal arts university outside Boston) and came across the following:
"Within belief systems, certain constraints are purely logical. For example, one cannot believe that government expenditures should be increased, that government revenues should be decreased, and that a more favorable balance of the budget should be achieved all at the same time."
Somebody get scholar Philip Converse over to the White House.