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> From Capitol Hill Blue
>
> Bush Leagues
> Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
> By DOUG THOMPSON & TERESA HAMPTON
> Jun 4, 2004, 06:15
>
> President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.
>
> In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
>
> Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.
>
> "It reminds me of the Nixon days," says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. "Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there."
>
> In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be "God's will" and then tells aides to "f--k over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.
>
> "We're at war, there's no doubt about it. What I don't know anymore is just who the enemy might be," says one troubled White House aide. "We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing."
>
> Aides say the President gets "hung up on minor details," micromanaging to the extreme while ignoring the bigger picture. He will spend hours personally reviewing and approving every attack ad against his Democratic opponent and then kiss off a meeting on economic issues.
>
> "This is what is killing us on Iraq," one aide says. "We lost focus. The President got hung up on the weapons of mass destruction and an unproven link to al Qaeda. We could have found other justifiable reasons for the war but the President insisted the focus stay on those two, tenuous items."
>
> Aides who raise questions quickly find themselves shut out of access to the President or other top advisors. Among top officials, Bush's inner circle is shrinking. Secretary of State Colin Powell has fallen out of favor because of his growing doubts about the administration's war against Iraq.
>
> The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.
>
> "Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now."
>
> Tenet was allowed to resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked staff of the decision Thursday morning. One aide says the President actually described the decision as "God's will."
>
> God may also be the reason Attorney General John Ashcroft, the administration's lightning rod because of his questionable actions that critics argue threatens freedoms granted by the Constitution, remains part of the power elite. West Wing staffers call Bush and Ashcroft "the Blues Brothers" because "they're on a mission from God."
>
> "The Attorney General is tight with the President because of religion," says one aide. "They both believe any action is justifiable in the name of God."
>
> But the President who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them "f--king a--holes" in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others and labeling anyone who disagrees with him "unpatriotic" or "anti-American."
>
> "The mood here is that we're under siege, there's no doubt about it," says one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. "In this administration, you don't have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President."
>
> The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the record.
>
> (c) Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

> From Capitol Hill Blue
>
> Bush Leagues
> Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
> By TERESA HAMPTON
> Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
> Jul 28, 2004, 08:09
>
> President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
>
> The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President's mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
>
> "It's a double-edged sword," says one aide. "We can't have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally."
>
> Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.
> Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.
>
> "Keep those motherf--kers away from me," he screamed at an aide backstage. "If you can't, I'll find someone who can."
>
> Bush's mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President's wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.
>
> Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a "paranoid meglomaniac" and "untreated alcoholic" whose "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad" showcase Bush's instabilities.
>
> "I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed," Dr. Frank said. "He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated."
>
> Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.
>
> The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President.
>
> "President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies," Dr. Frank adds.
>
> The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.
>
> Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known, White House sources say they are "powerful medications" designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President's annual physical, details of the President's health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President.
>
> Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush's health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan's second term when aides managed to conceal the President's increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer's Disease.
>
> It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon's final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn't emerge until after Nixon left office.
>
> One long-time GOP political consultant who - for obvious reasons - asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.
>
> "We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes," he says sadly. "That's not good for my candidates, it's not good for the party and it's certainly not good for the country."
>
> (c) Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

JSPB22 wrote:Wow! Here are two interesting articles my uncle in DC just sent me:

> From Capitol Hill Blue
>
> Bush Leagues
> Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
> By DOUG THOMPSON & TERESA HAMPTON
> Jun 4, 2004, 06:15
>
> President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind.
>
> In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
>
> Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.
>
> "It reminds me of the Nixon days," says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. "Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there."
>
> In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be "God's will" and then tells aides to "f--k over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.
>
> "We're at war, there's no doubt about it. What I don't know anymore is just who the enemy might be," says one troubled White House aide. "We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing."
>
> Aides say the President gets "hung up on minor details," micromanaging to the extreme while ignoring the bigger picture. He will spend hours personally reviewing and approving every attack ad against his Democratic opponent and then kiss off a meeting on economic issues.
>
> "This is what is killing us on Iraq," one aide says. "We lost focus. The President got hung up on the weapons of mass destruction and an unproven link to al Qaeda. We could have found other justifiable reasons for the war but the President insisted the focus stay on those two, tenuous items."
>
> Aides who raise questions quickly find themselves shut out of access to the President or other top advisors. Among top officials, Bush's inner circle is shrinking. Secretary of State Colin Powell has fallen out of favor because of his growing doubts about the administration's war against Iraq.
>
> The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.
>
> "Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now."
>
> Tenet was allowed to resign "voluntarily" and Bush informed his shocked staff of the decision Thursday morning. One aide says the President actually described the decision as "God's will."
>
> God may also be the reason Attorney General John Ashcroft, the administration's lightning rod because of his questionable actions that critics argue threatens freedoms granted by the Constitution, remains part of the power elite. West Wing staffers call Bush and Ashcroft "the Blues Brothers" because "they're on a mission from God."
>
> "The Attorney General is tight with the President because of religion," says one aide. "They both believe any action is justifiable in the name of God."
>
> But the President who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them "f--king a--holes" in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others and labeling anyone who disagrees with him "unpatriotic" or "anti-American."
>
> "The mood here is that we're under siege, there's no doubt about it," says one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. "In this administration, you don't have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President."
>
> The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the record.
>
> (c) Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

And more recently:

> From Capitol Hill Blue
>
> Bush Leagues
> Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
> By TERESA HAMPTON
> Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
> Jul 28, 2004, 08:09
>
> President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
>
> The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President's mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
>
> "It's a double-edged sword," says one aide. "We can't have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally."
>
> Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.
> Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.
>
> "Keep those motherf--kers away from me," he screamed at an aide backstage. "If you can't, I'll find someone who can."
>
> Bush's mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President's wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.
>
> Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a "paranoid meglomaniac" and "untreated alcoholic" whose "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad" showcase Bush's instabilities.
>
> "I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed," Dr. Frank said. "He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated."
>
> Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.
>
> The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President.
>
> "President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies," Dr. Frank adds.
>
> The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.
>
> Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known, White House sources say they are "powerful medications" designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President's annual physical, details of the President's health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President.
>
> Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush's health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan's second term when aides managed to conceal the President's increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer's Disease.
>
> It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon's final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn't emerge until after Nixon left office.
>
> One long-time GOP political consultant who - for obvious reasons - asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.
>
> "We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes," he says sadly. "That's not good for my candidates, it's not good for the party and it's certainly not good for the country."
>
> (c) Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

DEHog wrote:Hey guy thought you might want to know that the Skins started training camp! No really I'm serious, come on over to the Hogwash and training camp forum and see for yourself!!

Brandon777 wrote:More liberal dung from liberal sources. I guess democrats are feeling really desperate now. I'm sure more garbage like this is going to bombard Americans in the next few months.

I guess I can't blame democrats for being scared and desperate. Most presidential canidates get a nice and hefty bounce in the polls right after their convention. According to the latest polls, Kerry has lost ground. A presidential canidate losing ground right after the convention hasn't happened since 1972.

JSPB22 wrote:

Brandon777 wrote:More liberal dung from liberal sources. I guess democrats are feeling really desperate now. I'm sure more garbage like this is going to bombard Americans in the next few months.

I guess I can't blame democrats for being scared and desperate. Most presidential canidates get a nice and hefty bounce in the polls right after their convention. According to the latest polls, Kerry has lost ground. A presidential canidate losing ground right after the convention hasn't happened since 1972.

You sound as paranoid as the president, Brandon. He only lost ground if you believe the Gallup poll, Newsweek's poll shows a 4% bounce. Anyway the Gallup polls numbers are within the margin of error for their sample size. I guess they stopped asking questions when they got the answer they wanted.

JSPB22 wrote:Please, CNN hasn't been left of center since before Turner sold out to Time Warner, and even then it was more objective than almost any other news source other than C-SPAN or PBS. Now, CNN is a stealth version of FOX, maybe closer to MSNBC. FOX is like pro wrestling, CNN is closer to pro boxing. This is a simile. What I am saying is that FOX is obviously a scripted attempt at public conditioning through propaganda. CNN actually tries to put up the pretense that their news reports are on the level, although the fix is, all to often, "in" on their broadcasts. Check out this website http://mediamatters.org/ run by former GOP hatchet-man David Brock. He is the guy that broke the whole Paula Jones story about President Clinton. He has since seen the error of his ways, written a book called "Blinded By The Right", and now works to debunk the lies spread by the right. He has first-hand knowledge of the inner-workings of the current predominance of conservative misinformation. It just might open your eyes, but I doubt it.

Brandon777 wrote:Fox seems to slant to the right

Brandon777 wrote:Shows on Fox News, such as the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes are really well produced and honest. They are fair and balanced.

JSPB22 wrote:

Brandon777 wrote:Fox seems to slant to the right

Seems to slant? Give me a break, are you the only person in America who doesn't know that FOX is hardcore right-wing?

Brandon777 wrote:Shows on Fox News, such as the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes are really well produced and honest. They are fair and balanced.

You are so far off the deep end, it is no longer worth discussing this with you. I'm sure you didn't even bother to click on the link I provided. What are you scared of? Finding out you have been duped? Republicans have the chickens voting for Col. Sanders. When Fox news sued Al Franken for his book Lies, and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, it was for copyright infringement, not for libel, because there is no case for libel if the truth is being told. There is no such thing as a "Liberal Media." This is the biggest lie of them all. The so-called "Liberal Media" is conservative owned. Did you ever think about that? The right is offering you someone to hate. Very similar to how the Nazi's offered up the Jews, the right offers up the left, as the root of all the problems in America. The left is all about kindness and love. Jesus was the ultimate liberal.

Brandon777 wrote:

JSPB22 wrote:

Brandon777 wrote:Fox seems to slant to the right

Seems to slant? Give me a break, are you the only person in America who doesn't know that FOX is hardcore right-wing?

Brandon777 wrote:Shows on Fox News, such as the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes are really well produced and honest. They are fair and balanced.

You are so far off the deep end, it is no longer worth discussing this with you. I'm sure you didn't even bother to click on the link I provided. What are you scared of? Finding out you have been duped? Republicans have the chickens voting for Col. Sanders. When Fox news sued Al Franken for his book Lies, and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, it was for copyright infringement, not for libel, because there is no case for libel if the truth is being told. There is no such thing as a "Liberal Media." This is the biggest lie of them all. The so-called "Liberal Media" is conservative owned. Did you ever think about that? The right is offering you someone to hate. Very similar to how the Nazi's offered up the Jews, the right offers up the left, as the root of all the problems in America. The left is all about kindness and love. Jesus was the ultimate liberal.

So Fox News is slanted towards the right. So what. CNN and MSNBC slants to the left. Why are you liberals so SCARED of Fox News? Don't watch it if you don't like it. BTW, Al Franken is a vagina. Don't follow his philosophy too much or one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize that.. well you know. Jesus was the ultimate liberal? He HATED TAXES with a passion. Liberals love TO TAX. That's as far as I'll go in discussing the topic of "who would Jesus vote for. We all know that the Son of God would vote republican