Hitler in the Bunker

“Is Bush Out of Control?
By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 15, 2005, 05:46

Buy beleaguered, overworked White House aides enough drinks and they tell a sordid tale of an administration under siege, beset by bitter staff infighting and led by a man whose mood swings suggest paranoia bordering on schizophrenia.

They describe a President whose public persona masks an angry, obscenity-spouting man who berates staff, unleashes tirades against those who disagree with him and ends meetings in the Oval Office with “get out of here!”

In fact, George W. Bush’s mood swings have become so drastic that White House emails often contain “weather reports” to warn of the President’s demeanor. “Calm seas” means Bush is calm while “tornado alert” is a warning that he is pissed at the world.

Decreasing job approval ratings and increased criticism within his own party drives the President’s paranoia even higher. Bush, in a meeting with senior advisors, called Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist a “god-damned traitor” for opposing him on stem-cell research.

“There’s real concern in the West Wing that the President is losing it,” a high-level aide told me recently.

A year ago, this web site discovered the White House physician prescribed anti-depressants for Bush. The news came after revelations that the President’s wide mood swings led some administration staffers to doubt his sanity.

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.

As a recovering alcoholic (sober 11 years, two months, nine days), I know all too well the symptoms that Dr. Frank describes and, after watching Bush for the past several years, I have to, unfortunately, agree with him.

Conversations over the last few weeks with longtime friends who work in the Bush White House confirm even more what Dr. Frank says and others have suggested.

The President of the United States is out of control. How long can the ship of state continue to sail with a madman at the helm?

© Copyright 2005 Capitol Hill Blue”

“George Bush's brain on drugs.”

“Another nonsensical comment by solitary hiker...”

“Another nonsensical comment about solitary hiker...”

“All Hail the Psycho in Chief!!!!”

“And the sad thing is that he is more sane than Cheney. Cheney is a foaming at the mouth loonie!”

“Maybe that's why he's spending 5 weeks on vacation in Texas... to regain his sanity.”

“The "man" is the most vacationing Prez of all time. Maybe he's there to hit the bottle a little.”

“Given the nature of the job and the resources they constantly have within an arms reach, I fail to see how they can ever really be on vacation. The scenery may change. But they are still doing the job.”

“Wouldn't it be nice if our troops got 5 consecutive weeks off?”

“Wouldn't it be nice if our troops got 5 consecutive weeks off?”
Buddha Bear
6:21:50 AM
8/21/05

It is extremely rare for soldiers in many units to EVER get their entire leave (30 days) in a consecutive block. That would mess up a units ability to have adequate staffing if a deployment need should arrive. Many infantry units use a block leave rotation. In midsummer portion of the unit rotate on and off leave for 15 day intervals, the same occurs in december. If you dont take leave you dont get it till next rotation in 6 months.

I know the comment was rhetoric but it was logically flawed in a military context. The military has a priority and vacation isnt it.”

“I don't begrudge any president running the country from his vacation spot. NoProb is correct inasmuch as they take the White House with them, for all practical purposes. If they can run the country from Air Force One, they can run it from anywhere else in the world. If that were Bubya's worst sin, I would still be a Repugnican!”

“I like it!”

“Now, I'm not a fan of this Bush's presidency - but comparing him to Hitler in his bunker (even if the info in the article is true) is a pretty huge piece of hypperbole.”

“Of course, huge hyperbole does have entertainment value.”

“How much bole is there in a hyperbole?”

“Good question Geo, I'd say about 23 gigagallons - although if its huge I'd think it would be as much as 29. But here's my question for you:

If a milipede a pint,
and a centipede a quart,
then how much would a precipice?”

“About a quart and a pint, I'd guess. Am I close?”

“To the edge? Yes.”

“'scuse me while I go and try to fill a 1 liter Nalgene.

I'm going to donate it to the Whitehouse.”

“Good MarkO do your part to solve the energy crisis.

http://www.chemie.de/news/e/48347/?pw=a&defop=and&wild=yes&sdate=01/01/1995&edate=08/18/2005
last edited: 8/21/05 9:14:48 PM”

“I know the comment was rhetoric but it was logically flawed in a military context. The military has a priority and vacation isnt it.”
birch
8:30:37 AM
8/21/05

You and I have many disagreements, but we both know that neither one of us would have the audacity to to take such a leave as commander and chief of our military forces. You friggin' know that Joe, regardless of our differences. Both you and I, if in Dumb-ass Jr.'s position would not take a 5 week working-fishing vacation when our buddies were fighting a war. We'd be on top of the shiznit, working our arses off. Don't disgrace yourself by throwing some weak context arguement at the situation.

Sincerely,

A union advocate who encourages use of all vacation by everybody (unless your decision is putting people in harm's way).”

“BB, the context argument is valid. Its easy to stand where either of us do and speculate as to what the President is doing. Buts its all assumptions. Isnt the argument that taking time of creates a better worker? Thats the approach our local union council advised us to take for negotiations. Maybe things will go better if the President is really fishing for 5 weeks...
last edited: 8/22/05 5:49:45 AM”

“Things would work better if Bubya fished for 52 weeks of the year.”

“Geo, what if he already has been for this long...LOL.”

“Hitler was delusional at the end and so is George Bush. He's in way over his head and if anything in the report is true then maybe it's time he was relieved of his command. Impeach the ba$tard!”

“He has been out to sea for a long time Birch. Whether he was fishing during that time is debatable.”

“Too good to go to be with jesus and the angels.”

“

http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2297

"While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.
“I’m not meeting with that goddamned #&%!$,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m concerned!”

Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them “mother#&%!$ing traitors.” He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore “bull#&%!$ protectors” over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to “tell those VFW #&%!$s that I’ll never speak to them again is they can’t keep their members under control.”

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the President’s honesty.

“Who gives a flying #&%!$ what the polls say,” he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know #&%!$.”

Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA bill, flipped an extended middle finger at the camera before going live. Aides say the President often “flips the bird” to show his displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to “go to hell” or to “go #&%!$ yourself.”

Bush’s behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Frank, author of “Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President,” is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is ruled by fear.

To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is confront the President. “To actually directly confront him in a clear way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you would also see the fear,” he says.

Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, may be drinking again.

“Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office,” Dr. Frank says. “Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed in any serious assessment of his psychological state.”

Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what aides called “violent mood swings.” As Dr. Frank also notes: “In writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom Shales speculated that ‘the president may have been ever so slightly medicated.’”

Dr. Frank explains Bush’s behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic who is still in denial:

“The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality; it's rarely limited to his or her drinking,” he says. “The habit of placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W. Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the mildest threat.””

“This is obviously a muckraking little piece of crap, but...

...after a string of lies everything becomes true.

It's what happened to Clinton. When he got the blow job, it gave legs to all the other stories about him. Suddenly, the books about Vince Foster and Whitewater and everything else became true.

And that's what has now happened to Bush. He got caught in a big lie. His credibility is shot and now even normal, clear-headed people read what SH posts and a little voice says "maybe it's all true."

It's the point of no return, really. How will this man ever be able to govern effectively again?”

“So you think the picture is fake too? It would be possible but somehow my guess is that it's not. Of course I'm not a person one can trust ..... only time will tell.”

“Well, no, I think that he picked his nose and was just admiring how much he got.

Hey, Solitary, there is a little voice inside my head that says "Go SH!" every time you post. It's why I love Michael Moore movies and reading dailykos.

But I'm just a crazed conservative Democrat from the rust belt.

We still await our Messiah.”

“Why love Michael Moore? That guy is so full of $hit. His gun movie and his Saudis are the boogymen movie are full of lies. Not trying to put you down RL but Michael Moore is not at all what he would like to appear to be. He's a Hollywood MSM shill.”

“Hey, he's from Michigan. He's full of #&%!$, sure. But he's a hometown guy.”

“Anyone who want to take away my guns is a kook. MM qaulifies.

signed,

Lifetime member NRA”