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Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides
By Doug Thompson
From: [link to www.capitolhillblue.com]
November 02, 2005 _
The Rant__By DOUG THOMPSON_Nov 2, 2005, 05:26
An uncivil war rages inside the walls of the West Wing of the White House, a bitter, acrimonious war driven by a failed agenda, destroyed credibility, dwindling public support and a President who lapses into Alzheimer-like periods of incoherent babbling.
On one side are the dwindling numbers of die-hard loyalists to President George W. Bush, those who support his actions and decisions without question and remain committed to both Bush and scandal-scarred political advisor Karl Rove.
On the other side are the increasing numbers of those who say Rove must go and who worry about the President´s declining mental state and his ability to restore credibility with Congress, our foreign allies and the American people.
The war erupted into full-blown shout fests at Camp David this past weekend where decorum broke down in staff meetings and longtime aides threatened to quit unless Rove goes. Insiders say Chief of Staff Andrew Card now leads the anti-Rove legions and has told Bush that he wants out of the high-pressure job.
White House staff members say the White House is “like a wartime bunker” where shell-shocked aides hide from those who disagree with their actions and office pools speculate on how long certain senior aides will last.
Bush, whose obscenity-laced temper tantrums increase with each new setback and scandal, abruptly ended one Camp David meeting by telling everyone in the room to “go fuck yourselves” before he stalked out of the room.
Senior aides describe Bush as increasingly “edgy” or “nervous” or “unfocused.” They say the President goes from apparent coherent thought one moment to aimless rambles about political enemies and those who are “out to get me.”
“It’s worse than the days when Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s began setting in,” one longtime GOP operative told me privately this week. “You don’t know if he’s going to be coherent from one moment to the next. What scares me is if he lapses into one of those fogs during a public appearance.”
Aides say Bush, who has always had trouble focusing during times of stress, is increasingly distant during meetings, often staring off into space during discussions on the nation’s security and other issues.
Card has responded to the crisis by cutting back on the number of staff members with direct access to the President and jumping in to answer questions when Bush’s mind wanders.
“Some people say Karl Rove is ‘Bush’s brain,’” says one increasingly-concerned West Winger. “Well Andy has become the President’s voice. He’s there to speak when the President seems unable to find form an answer.”
Bush’s mental state is a hot topic on Internet blogs and has increased since this web site disclosed last year that the White House physician had placed the President on anti-depressant medication – a story the administration never denied. Others, including prominent psychiatrists like Dr. Justin Frank of George Washington University, wonder if Bush, an admitted heavy drinker who claims he quit without any professional help, is hitting the bottle again.
An increasing number of mainstream media outlets, including Newsweek, The Washington Post and the New York Daily News recently confirmed our earlier reports about Bush’s temper tantrums.
“Bush usually reserves his celebrated temper for senior aides because he knows they can take it,” the Daily News reported. “Lately, however, some junior staffers also have faced the boss’s wrath.”
“This is not some manager at McDonald’s chewing out the help," a source with close ties to the White House told the paper. “This is the president of the United States, and it’s not a pleasant sight.”
Bush loyalists claim the President can survive his current spate of political troubles and emerge stronger than ever but an increasing number of White House aides express increasing doubt. Some even go so far as to speculate if the President’s deteriorating mental condition can survive another three years in office.
“The President has lost his focus, his ability to govern and the trust of the American people,” says one longtime GOP operative. “Those are things that are difficult to recapture when you’re on top of your game and this President has taken one too many blows to the head.”
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Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
By Doug Thompson
From: [link to www.capitolhillblue.com]
Oct 21, 2005, 08:12
For all practical purposes, governing the nation has stopped at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as aides deal with an increasingly despondent President, mounting scandals and defecting dissidents from the Ship of State.
White House insiders say George W. Bush’s mood swings have increased to the point where meetings with the President must be cancelled, schedules shifted and plans changed to keep a bitter, distracted leader from the public eye.
“He’s like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance,” says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified. “Other times he launches into angry outbursts, cussing out anybody who gets near him.”
Aides say gallows humor has descended on the White House, where the West Wing is now referred to as “death row” and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, along with Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, are known as “dead men walking,” a reference to the last walk death row inmates take to the execution chamber.
With indictments expected against Libby or Rove or both any day now from the Valerie Plame scandal, the White House mood has a “Final Days” aura (“Final Days” was the title of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s book about the last days of the Nixon administration). Although no one expects President Bush to be impeached or resign, Internet blogs buzzed this week with talk of a possible resignation by Vice President Dick Cheney.
“That’s bullshit,” says one longtime Republican consultant. “They’ll have to carry Dick Cheney out of here on a stretcher.” But Rove and Libby will be gone if they are indicted and some wonder if the President, whose ability to govern is already limited by despair and detraction, can function without Rove, often referred to as “Bush’s brain.”
“Rove’s role is diminished already,” says one White House aide. “He still meets with The President daily but all this has taken its toll. He looks terrible.”
So does White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, who has served longer in the job than anyone in modern times. Card works 16 and 17-hour days and, in the words of one Republican member of Congress, looks “completely burned out.”
But holding the White House together behind what has been one of the better Presidential propaganda machines is proving next to impossible as the American public and even members of Bush’s own party desert him over the war in Iraq, the nomination of White House counsel Harriett Miers to the Supreme Court, the Hurricane Katrina debacle, rising gas prices and the Valerie Plame scandal.
“The façade is gone and we are now seeing the Bush White House in all its incompetent glory,” says retired political science professor George Harleigh. “They’ve ignored reality for too long.”
With Congress distracted by growing scandals swirling around former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Washington has become a daily killing field for anyone involved in the GOP leadership.
This week, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s right-hand man unloaded on the Bush Administration during a speech to the New American Foundation, saying American foreign policy had been hijacked by “a Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal” that has destroyed this country’s credibility with its allies.
“I’m not sure the State Department even exists anymore,” Col. Larry Wilkerson, Powell’s chief of staff, told the audience of journalists and scholars. “It, like so many others things, have been destroyed by George W. Bush’s ‘cowboyism.’”
Wilkerson dismisses the Administration’s attempts to improve America’s image abroad.
“You can’t sell shit,” he said.
Wilkerson isn’t the only high-profile Republican operative bailing on Bush. Bruce Bartlett, who served as a Senior Policy Advisor in Bush’s father’s administration, is about to release a book: Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Destroyed the Reagan Legacy. Bartlett lost his job at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative Texas think tank, when word of his book project leaked out.
Republicans, the last to finally acknowledge the lies and duplicity of the Bush White House, no longer trust the Administration. When current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before Congress this week and claimed “significant progress” in Iraq, Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island fired back: “Well, we all wish that were true, but we can´t kid ourselves, either.”
But Wilkerson, a veteran with 31 years in the Marines and a former director of the Marine War College, sums up what, sadly, will be the legacy of George W. Bush:
“If there is a nuclear terrorist attack or a major pandemic you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that´ll take you back to the Declaration of Independence.” |
| Handful
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11/22/2005 4:04 AM | | Re: Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses | Quote |
This is disinfo. It´s crap!
CapitalHillBlue.com was a right-wing shill during the Clinton administration and is spouting lies weekly about Bush losing it mentally. It´s crap, Bush is the most successful NWO poodle, U.S. Treasury thief, in the history of the USA. Bush is ecstatic!
Wishful thinking yes, but the rags spreading lies about his mental discomfort are fakes fooling the ignorant. |
| Anonymous Coward
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11/22/2005 6:53 AM | | Re: Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses | Quote |
That´s YOUR wishful thinking, long since thoroughly discredited by the evidence! We have only to see Bush´s incoherent remarks and answers to reporters to realise how true all this is. His latest confusion in China - opening the wrong door - is just another in a long list of examples. The guy is "mentally challenged," as they say. He´s back on the booze and is taking anti-depressants because no one except his appointed sycophants gives him the adulation or respect his self-hate forces him to crave. People like you of course have no option but to deny the evidence by attacking the messenger even when it is repeated by people like Dr Justin Frank, who has no political axe to grind. Take your pathetic defenses elsewhere. They don´t fool us! Bush is a sad joke. |
| Concerned Aussie from Perth
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11/22/2005 7:09 AM
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Disagree with you on this one Handful. The site might be dodge, but Bush´s mental State is flawed. Dr Justin Frank indeed wrote all about it.
If i may OP, consider the following Q and A from LL web cast.
"Freeman: Your next question is from a Democratic political consultant. He says, "Lyn, I´ve been pretty quiet lately, but right now, I feel like I really do have to say something, because I´m concerned about the President´s psychological state. [laughter] There have been numerous articles and commentaries on this subject, probably the most recent being this piece in the Washington Times Magazine, that describes the poor President as suffering feelings of deep betrayal, bordering on paranoia. It describes a man attempting to rule from a bunker, his only daily contact being with his mother, his wife, Condi Rice, and Karen Hughes, which is not a happy state of affairs. [laughter] Some have compared his demeanor to what we saw in him in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, but, to be honest, I think he looks more like Anthony Perkins in the final scenes of Perkins´ immemorable performance as Norman Bates in the movie Psycho. I´d be interested in your opinion on this, and how you think we can manage, with a President in this condition?"
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LaRouche: Well, first of all, he´s a defective personality, it´s obvious. And one thing that´s left out in this report, is the fact that his controller is Cheney. It´s Cheney who talks to him every day. Svengali talks to Trilby every day. And Trilby can´t sing. I don´t know whether to object to the relationship, or the music.
But the man is defective, he´s a non-functional personality. He never made an honest nickel on his own in his life. He has no qualifications for any political office. I´m not sure he´s guilty, because of insanity. I don´t think he really is capable of knowing what the truth is. Except in a very trivial sense. Because, he´s so busy fabricating explanations for what he does, which are loony.
This man is nothing but a puppet. Yes, he has psychological characteristics. Justin Frank has gone through his psychological characteristics. I think that´s significant, but that doesn´t explain Bush. How do you butterflydgar Bergen´s Charlie McCarthy?
What do you do to control Charlie McCarthy, if he´s bad? Cut the strings.
Get him out of there! But—the problem is, here—.
The problem of statesmanship is where the problem comes in. Sure, he should go. He has no business being President of the United States. But we have something else to concern us: Not just who occupies the Presidency, but the institution of the Presidency, and its function. We have to have a functioning Presidency. Now, if we have to have a perfect, gibbering idiot called George Bush in the Oval Office, we can put rubber walls in there or whatever we need to do! But, if we decide that we are not prepared to eject him, then we have to build something around him that controls him. The way you do that, is you strip everything that´s bad, every bad influence—get him out from under bad influences.
Now, you also see, that he has a problem of a type which is called in German, a Kronprinz Problem. He´s a total incompetent—and Justin missed this one—he´s a total incompetent. But he was raised and protected by women. Now, where the account that is referred to by this questioner is accurate, is this women factor. The women factor is an essential part of managing him. He only responds to management by women.
Remember, the case of a child, as in the German literature on the Crown Prince syndrome: The case of a child who finds himself, as a male child, who is totally dependent upon the care of a number of women in his childhood. And therefore, his ability to control his environment as a child, depends upon his being able to manipulate or influence these women—or to believe that he does. That becomes his characteristic in life, unless he cures himself of it. And it can be a very savage and very painful, very sick kind of situation, the Crown Prince syndrome.
You have, in George Bush, a fellow, who, because of his family background—and where Justin does describe some of these factors in his book—but, because of his family background, has no intellectual capability whatsoever. He´s a complete fake, he´s a drug addict, a drug user, he´s a flunkey; all his mistakes are covered up for him by his family. But he´s out there—he has no capability, but he´s the first-born child, of Barbara and George Sr. And they have dynastic delusions: They want the Presidency to pass from father, to son, to grandson, and so forth and so on, and so on. So, he´s the first-born child, [pauses, then sweetly] the first-born child.
George finally says, "Yeah, but Barbara, he´s kinda stupid, dontcha think?" She says, "No—he´s our first-born child." [rolling laughter] "We have to create a Presidency for him. We have to make the Presidency fit him. He´s got to be King—maybe Emperor!"
But he only responds to handling by women, women who know how to manipulate him, just like the typical Crown Prince sort. The Crown Prince thinks he´s manipulating the women, but the women are actually manipulating him, but they´re manipulated by the pleasure in being able to manipulate him! It´s one of these—it´s a dynamic relationship, huh? Not a very nice one—but dynamic!
So therefore, you get this kind of defective personality, occupying the most powerful position in the world, in terms of government. How do you run it? He´s got no brain power. He can´t run the world—he can´t run the United States! He can´t run the Oval Office! He has to sleep at 9 o´clock at night. He has to ride a dirt bike up and down the walls of the Oval Office, to keep himself in shape. If he falls on his head? No damage, nothing is lost.
Study history! How many times in history, has a head of state, or comparable person, been in that kind of situation that I just described of the President of the United States? When you have a system, like the old, corrupt court system, where a court system manages the idiot emperor—and that´s what you have. You have the idiot emperor is being managed by an apparatus.
How´d he become President? He went to—according to his account!—he went to George Shultz, who told him he had a future. He went down to Texas, and had somebody tapped him on the head and said, "You´re a Christian." "Okay—good!" I mean, the biggest drunk in Texas, you know? Suddenly, he´s a Christian—and cured. He´s a dry drunk, rolling around on the sand.
So, this is the problem we have. So, you have to look, in understanding him, you have to look at what he is really. And you have to have a sense of Classical tragedy to understand him. The Classical tragedy is not his. It´s our nation´s. Don´t worry about him. Worry about our nation.
But the problem is, we have a problem—this damned idiot is President. Now, it would be better if he were replaced by somebody who was competent. But we have to think about, what´s the process of replacing a President, like this? When you have to go through the process of getting Cheney out—and that you have to do; you must get Cheney out now. There´s no compromise on that. And you have to take his apparatus down with him. And you have to find some way of managing this President, so that a policy-making body comes into the Executive branch, which manages this basket case. [applause]
Freeman: If he really needs a woman to tell him what to do, I could probably pencil some time in. [laughter] Especially if the organization springs for a new pair of black boots like Condi´s. |
| Anonymous Coward
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11/22/2005 7:10 AM | | Re: Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses | Quote |
It is really sad when people can not see the truth about Bush. Or they can but do not want to accept. By not seeing the truth of what is actually happening, they are defending a lost cause. One that if not stopped soon may result in devestating saga. Defend Bush all you want, but if you do, then do it with reason. Defending something just for the sake of your beliefs without grounds and closing your eyes to reality right in front of your face is the attitude of morons. |
| AC
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11/22/2005 7:18 AM | | Re: Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses | Quote |
Maybe it´s all that fermented mares milk Dubya drank in Mongolia. |
| Anonymous Coward
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11/23/2005 1:01 AM | | Re: Bush´s Increasing Mental Lapses | Quote |
For all practical purposes, governing the nation has stopped at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as aides deal with an increasingly despondent President, mounting scandals and defecting dissidents from the Ship of State.
White House insiders say George W. Bush’s mood swings have increased to the point where meetings with the President must be cancelled, schedules shifted and plans changed to keep a bitter, distracted leader from the public eye.
“He’s like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance,” says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified. “Other times he launches into angry outbursts, cussing out anybody who gets near him.”
Aides say gallows humor has descended on the White House, where the West Wing is now referred to as “death row” and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, along with Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, are known as “dead men walking,” a reference to the last walk death row inmates take to the execution chamber.
With indictments expected against Libby or Rove or both any day now from the Valerie Plame scandal, the White House mood has a “Final Days” aura (“Final Days” was the title of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s book about the last days of the Nixon administration). Although no one expects President Bush to be impeached or resign, Internet blogs buzzed this week with talk of a possible resignation by Vice President Dick Cheney.
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