Some articles to read together — Frank Rich asks if Bush is talking to the walls yet.
It turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,†the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is.
Via Thomas Paine’s Corner, Andrew Stephen writes of the midterms:
I was asked on BBC radio a couple of days ago whether Democratic victories would temper Bush’s recklessness. I replied that I could answer that only if I could peer into the strange mind of a 60-year-old recovering alcoholic named George W Bush.
Rumours persist here (and I have heard them repeated at a very senior level in the UK, too) that Bush has actually resumed drinking; I throw this into the mix not to sensationalise, but because I have now heard the rumour repeated at a sufficiently high level that I believe we must face the possibility that it might be true.
Bush was huddled inside the White House eating beef and ice cream on election night with Rove, my friend Josh Bolten, and four other trusted aides who will stick with him to the end. He was not drinking on this occasion, I’m assured – but, more than ever, my depiction of an unstable man living out his final days in office inside his bunker seem no longer to be fanciful. Hemmed in by Democratic foes wherever he looks, determined to be remembered in history as an unwaveringly strong leader, and increasingly detached from reality: now that suddenly becomes a very frightening vision indeed.
What’s next?
If he’s not drinking, he certainly IS a dry drunk. Either way he is dangerous.
On Sunday’s MTP Sen Warner hoped that the President would “share the fruit of his thinking”.
Bananas
What’s next?
A straight jacket & Rubber room for the potus or 2 years of crazy beyond imagination.We’ll See Who blinks first.
May I live long enough to see this “cabal” be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity.
How will history judge US if we do not attempt to impeach Bush and Cheney and just go about complaining for the next 2 years?
The American people will be guilty, too.
“How will history judge US if we do not attempt to impeach Bush and Cheney and just go about complaining for the next 2 years?
The American people will be guilty, too.”
diane, thanks for your comment. Right on.
We as voters have acted and finally dealt with the ‘enabler’ Congress which repeatedly averted its gaze from Bush team ‘high crimes’ [this after initiating impeachment proceedings of Clinton for lying about a blow job]. They were cowards and connivers who put the Republican party ahead of the country’s well-being, twisting the meaning of impeachment for purely political ends.
I cannot see us sufficiently correcting course without re-asserting and demonstrating to the world the original purpose of impeachment.
Our dead in Iraq now totals 2,901 American soldiers. All dead because of an unstable man whose ego said he ‘gets to’ pre-emptively invade a country that did not attack us, whose ego pathetically self-insulates with a mantra of ‘stay the course’, whose dry-or-wet-drunk ego is desperate to ward off reality. At this moment, I am furious with George Herbert Walker and Barbara Bush and all the subsequent blind enablers of this unchecked disaster named George W. Bush.
Looking at that picture of Napoleon makes me think what a flash in the pan Bush will be in the light of history. I guess Bush will get his recognition in history, although it will be expressed as a negative. Whether by genetics or being bred into him, he never developed the character necessary to become great. If Josepheus were to write Bush’s history, Im sure he’d refer to him as Bush the Lesser.