Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides
Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides
http://tinyurl.com/94hvk
Doug Thompson
He screamed: 'You have all betrayed me'
BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING: BUSH IS PUT IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD TO BE SILENCED.
FPF- Nov. 3 - 2005 - One of the strategies may be, that Bush's detoriating state of what's left of his mind will be used in a future media campaign to let the rest of the crooks of the hooks, while Bush is put in front of a firing squad to be silenced for ever. Or all blame is heaped on him when he is ' suicided' or gets the nowadays usual heartattack (the stress, you know?) or goes to Hell in some'lamentable accidente'.
As a dead man he can't even defend himself one way or the other anymore and is very silent. Not that there is any defense for what he's doing; ordering/allowing the present genocides: he'll for always be remembered as worse than Pol Pot and similar two-legged crimes against humanity. He's outdone them all.
But even if the neocon managers put all the blame on George Bush and some small fry via the media they own: they and the rest are still guilty of the same war crimes as Bush & ilk, according to outside the US still valid international law and the Geneva Conventions.
'NAKED EMPERORS' GOING INSANE
It's scary to know how lawless Bush is and what he can do, and reading this information in the article by the very well connected Doug Thompson below on the behavior of George Bush, automatically the information comes to mind about what happened to some other 'Naked Emperors' going insane in the stressing fog of pressure of their last days. Like Adolf, described by Ian Kershaw.
"In the final extract from his biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw charts Hitler's despair in his Berlin bunker as he realized that he had lost the war: "Even for those who had long experience of Hitler's furious outbursts, the tirade that thundered through the bunker for the next half an hour was a shock. One who witnessed it reported that evening: "Something broke inside me today that I still can't grasp."
Hitler screamed that he had been betrayed by all those he had trusted. He railed at the long-standing treachery of the army. Now, even the SS was lying to him. The troops would not fight, he ranted, the anti-tank defenses were down. As Jodl added, he also knew that munitions and fuel would shortly run out.
Hitler slumped into his chair. The storm subsided. His voice fell to practically a whimper. The war was lost, he sobbed. It was the first time any of his small audience had heard him admit it. They were dumbstruck. [end quote]
DUMBSTRUCK PEOPLE IN BUSH's SURROUNDINGS
How dumbstruck the people in Bush surroundings are, is indicated in the story by Doug Thompson who has written about this many times before, and as one of the first on the site of Capitol Hill Blue in his column 'The Rant': Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides.
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.
“LIKE A WARTIME BUNKER”
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.
BUSH’S MIND WANDERS
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.”
NOT A PLEASANT SIGHT
“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.”
DOUG THOMPSON
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http://tinyurl.com/94hvk
Doug Thompson
He screamed: 'You have all betrayed me'
BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING: BUSH IS PUT IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD TO BE SILENCED.
FPF- Nov. 3 - 2005 - One of the strategies may be, that Bush's detoriating state of what's left of his mind will be used in a future media campaign to let the rest of the crooks of the hooks, while Bush is put in front of a firing squad to be silenced for ever. Or all blame is heaped on him when he is ' suicided' or gets the nowadays usual heartattack (the stress, you know?) or goes to Hell in some'lamentable accidente'.
As a dead man he can't even defend himself one way or the other anymore and is very silent. Not that there is any defense for what he's doing; ordering/allowing the present genocides: he'll for always be remembered as worse than Pol Pot and similar two-legged crimes against humanity. He's outdone them all.
But even if the neocon managers put all the blame on George Bush and some small fry via the media they own: they and the rest are still guilty of the same war crimes as Bush & ilk, according to outside the US still valid international law and the Geneva Conventions.
'NAKED EMPERORS' GOING INSANE
It's scary to know how lawless Bush is and what he can do, and reading this information in the article by the very well connected Doug Thompson below on the behavior of George Bush, automatically the information comes to mind about what happened to some other 'Naked Emperors' going insane in the stressing fog of pressure of their last days. Like Adolf, described by Ian Kershaw.
"In the final extract from his biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw charts Hitler's despair in his Berlin bunker as he realized that he had lost the war: "Even for those who had long experience of Hitler's furious outbursts, the tirade that thundered through the bunker for the next half an hour was a shock. One who witnessed it reported that evening: "Something broke inside me today that I still can't grasp."
Hitler screamed that he had been betrayed by all those he had trusted. He railed at the long-standing treachery of the army. Now, even the SS was lying to him. The troops would not fight, he ranted, the anti-tank defenses were down. As Jodl added, he also knew that munitions and fuel would shortly run out.
Hitler slumped into his chair. The storm subsided. His voice fell to practically a whimper. The war was lost, he sobbed. It was the first time any of his small audience had heard him admit it. They were dumbstruck. [end quote]
DUMBSTRUCK PEOPLE IN BUSH's SURROUNDINGS
How dumbstruck the people in Bush surroundings are, is indicated in the story by Doug Thompson who has written about this many times before, and as one of the first on the site of Capitol Hill Blue in his column 'The Rant': Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides.
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.
“LIKE A WARTIME BUNKER”
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.
BUSH’S MIND WANDERS
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.”
NOT A PLEASANT SIGHT
“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.”
DOUG THOMPSON
[enditem] - Story at 2005 Capitol Hill Blue - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/94hvk
Extract from the biography of Adolf Hitler, by Ian Kershaw - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bz8nl
Fwd. by:
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
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