Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
Doug Thompson, writing for Capitol Blue, asks: Is Bush Out of Control? His answer? Heavily edited excerpts follow.
Bush’s mood swings have become so drastic that White House emails often contain “weather reports” to warn of the President’s demeanor. “There’s real concern in the West Wing that the President is losing it,” a high-level aide told me.
Do I think the President is losing it? No. I think he lost it a long time ago. However, the entire piece is worth a read: not too long and very well-written. Thompson quotes a prominent psychiatrist calling Bush an untreated former alcoholic. Take a look at the photo [of Bush with Dennis Hastert] and decide for yourself whether the word “former” seems appropriate. Click on the photo if you’re not sure. And please share your thoughts below.
Thanks to Peg C. for many things, including the pointer to this article.
You seein’ everything OK, Georgie? Georgie?? GEORGIE???
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Hahahah! What a GREAT picture of the Lunatic! 2 Lunatics, actually. A scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!
It’s scary. I wonder if georgie’s having late night chats & arguments with portraits & statues in the corridors of the WH, a la Tricky Dick?
Hello WP
I usually read Doug first thing in the morning for a good laugh. His Rants are some of the most profound, no BS broadsides to be found. Someone with the "been there" insight he has on the subject of substance abuse is not to be ignored. The Dr. qouted was beating his drum on Ws mental state before the 2004 election. In addition to the entertainment contributions to my day he always makes me pause and consider the serious content of his work. On this issue in my opinion hes on the mark. You can see and hear it in Ws responses every time his minions let him get caught without canned replies. Does this make Dick the sane one?
In that photo Bush is a dead ringer for Alfred E. Neuman. Since Alfred’s motto is "What, Me Worry?" I’d have to conclude that Bush can’t have lost it, because he never had it to begin with.
I think it was Hillary Clinton who compared Bush to Alfred E. Neuman. The Republicans demanded she apologize, and I agree…Alfred does deserve an apology.
Like Reagan, Bush seems to reveal himself during unguarded moments. The most memorable one for me was during the first debate with Kerry. When asked what the cause of the insurgency was (as I recall), he attributed it to having won the invasion too fast. Geez, that’s the kind of talk one would expect to hear in a bar room, not in a Presidential debate.
Why would people even think about voting for such a person? Maybe it’s because people think that the President is just a figurehead anyway and George Bush comes across as a character that one would like in a sit com.
Insurgency = military indigestion!
My question is this – why has it taken so long to wonder about Bush’s mind? His answers to any questions during the debate- would be totally off the wall or the famous No Child Left Behind, when asking how he was ending the war. Amazing !
I read nearly the exact same article on that prior to the 2004 election. I think somebody at Capitol Hill Blue is recycling stories….
Wow. Great picture.
From the viewpoint of a Jon Stewart or a Jay Leno, this whole is-george-losing-it thing would be hysterically funny. Unfortunately this LUNATIC is the freaking LEADER of the free world! Jesus God. Truly, truly Kafkaesque. And he probably wouldn’t even know what that MEANS!! …much less be able to pronounce it.
Oh come on. Can’t you come up with better innuendo?
Hello, MEP.
"Does this make Dick the sane one?"
Oh, no!
George Bush is so dumb, he thinks "innuendo" is Preparation H for Italians.
"Last step before insanity is religion"
If Bush is going over the edge, then somebody better keep the little bastard away from that red button on his desk. :crazy:
Trevor, you said
"Oh come on. Can’t you come up with better innuendo?"
To whom & to what innuendo are you referring??
I don getcha.
Holy CRAP he really DOES look like Alfred E. Neuman there!
Keep in mind Dr. Frank who is quoted in the Thompson article has not actually treated Bush. He admits that – I saw a CSPAN book review show where he appeared. That said, listening to Dr. Frank’s "diagnosis" of Bush was darned scary.
That Thompson, as a recovering alcoholic, agrees with Frank’s conclusions carries great weight with me. As one close to ADHD/ADD, I see it in many people before they even know (or before others unfamiliar know). And I don’t mean the obvious kid bouncing off the walls either – I’m talking adults.
But anyway, Cheney’s running the country anyway… Cheney and Rumsfeld, etc., so I guess we’re not in too great a danger…
Oops, wait a minute… Nope, we’re scr*wed either way.
Boosh is the text book case of a Sociopath and I’m sure his handelers have him heavily sedated. The proof was last years debates. 1st debate- over medicated. 2nd debate- under medicated. 3rd debate- awwww, just right.
Sociopath- a person, as a psychopath, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsbility or social conscience. (Websters).
That about sums it up.
Alfred E. Neuman’s alter-ego (and reputed heartthrob) was Moxie Cowznofsky, who is credited with the syllogism, "It’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."
George W. Bush is the only person who thinks that makes any sense whatsoever.
Terri In S. Fl — you summed up the debates! Good diagnosis.
Robert LM — so that’s what georgie just said … & it tickled him to death (oh don’t I wish.)
Found this leaked transcript of Hastert & Georgie’s conversation about how the war’s going over in Iraq. (See picture above.) They’re hunkered down in a corner of the padded situation room after filling up on electric kool-aid, brownies and a game of croquet:
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(Much appreciation to Lewis Carroll for being prescient enough to write about georgie’s JABBERWOCKY.)
Kira #17
Brilliant find of something too long forgotten.
VG
I’ve been looking into your website trying to find statements. If you are going to convince me, you are going to have to give some names and places so I can document your statements. Please let me know where I can find this information. Thx