The Problem with Lies

Politics is characterized by exaggeration, truth-stretching, and outright lies. Pretty much everybody understands this, nobody more so that the political and advertising consultants who put the lies out there for the public to consume.

But when the people who create the lies, such as the Republican Party leadership during the past twelve years or so, do such a huge and magnificent job with their lies that even the people who made up the lies in the first place come to believe them, then embarrassing things happen.