From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:42:24 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

>fewer apologists like you, falling back step by
>step from "crusade for US security and Iraqi freedom" three years ago
>to "well, maybe it could have been worse" today.

Like all addicts, Bushies are experiencing diminishing returns from their
drug of choice.

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003240.html
The investigators used functional neuroimaging (fMRI) to study a sample of
committed Democrats and Republicans during the three months prior to the
U.S. Presidential election of 2004. The Democrats and Republicans were
given a reasoning task in which they had to evaluate threatening
information about their own candidate. During the task, the subjects
underwent fMRI to see what parts of their brain were active. What the
researchers found was striking.


and...


Once partisans had come to completely biased conclusions -- essentially
finding ways to ignore information that could not be rationally discounted
-- not only did circuits that mediate negative emotions like sadness and
disgust turn off, but subjects got a blast of activation in circuits
involved in reward -- similar to what addicts receive when they get their
fix, Westen explains

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