Bush on drugs to control erratic behavior

[realFedUp]

is this being reported anywhere else?

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

Bush Leagues
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:00

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 motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

continued.

[mopinko]

1. this website

is not reliable, as far as i can tell. lots of stuff has been posted on here that we all hope is true, but i don't think any of it has panned out.

[Shopaholic]

24. Well, unreliable websites sure haven't kept the

Repugs from getting the media to report unflattering stories (and downright lies) about us so why the hell won't they report this??????

[NewJeffCT]

2. are they reliable?

They've thrown some pretty big stories out before and they hit the mainstream like a lead balloon...

Not saying the stories were false, but I figured if they were legit, we'd at least have heard a little bit of it?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. The Drugs? Obviously NOT. n/t

[RedEarth]

3. Scary ...as well as funny...however, not sure how accurrate capitalhillblu

is....

[lancdem]

4. Unfortunately, no

We have no way of knowing if this is credible.

Edit: This part did catch my eye, however.

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.”

[lovedems]

5. Didn't Nixon become insanely paranoid right before his downfall?

Hmm...

I have seen links from capitolhillblue.com before. Does anyone know about the "legitimacy" of this website?

[ewagner]

6. Well...............................

at least Capitol Hill Blue is consistant. They have been hammering this story for a while now but I still don't trust them to be telling the truth.

Time will tell.

In the meantime, I'll just sit back and watch.

[LTR]

7. I'd love it if it was indeed true

But I really have no reason to doubt it.

I'm sure there's a side to Dumbya that we don't know.

[kaitykaity]

9. This is the same place that came out with that

article last month about Bush's "state of mind."

Nobody else picked that one up, not even my friend
Randi Rhodes, so . . .

[Fenris]

10. Shouldn't the drugs make him *less* psychotic?

I see no change.

[drthais]

18. yes Poppy

I believe was on Halcion

[LiberalEsto]

11. poor sick Dubya

FYI Democrats.com has been airing a theory that Boy George inherited his parents' thyroid problems and may be suffering from the effects of a thyroid disease.

[BiggJawn]

12. Wasn't Poppy on Drugs?

I forget what exactly he was being treated for, but when he went through that time frame were he was babling and blithering and said that "Great big Nitty-Gritty-Dirty Bird" line (which I have had ReTHUGs deny that he ever said it) the explanation was his "meds"....

[Tellurian]

16. It's Poppy that has destroyed his own son..

His unrealistic goals and stern authoritarianism has brought Bush II to his knees..I wouldn't be surprised to hear, Bush2 has had a nervous breakdown.

[swag]

13. Didn't someone post that Josh Marshall was working on "the big story"

with these guys?

If so, I hope TNR's fact-checkers hammer the hell out of the reporting.

[derby378]

14. "Keep those motherfuckers away from me"

Mr. Bush, welcome to the United States of America. Hope you packed your lunch.

[lovuian]

15. When Someone does tremendously Wicked and Devious things

in their life....eventually their Unconscious comes to haunt them

I think Bush is under tremendous stress and things he has done is haunting him even his simple mind is unable to handle everything


The Whitehouse is a powder keg.....

and ask yourself there are many reasons why Bush should be depressed

[Tellurian]

20. Cheney is every bit as unstable as Bush..

they know there is a very good possibility their fiefdom is coming down around their ears..and they can't take the pressure. Clinton not only dealt with unrelenting Right Wing persecution, he did a great job of running the country.

These jackals are weak and unable to function under the scrutiny of daylight.

[Old and In the Way]

21. I really do think he's showing signs of a nervous breakdown.

He craves adoration and he knows how unpopular he really is. He's been getting progressively more vindictive, as witnessed in his last SOTU address and last televised press conference. His ability to communicate with any semblence of effectivity has deteriorated.

His chances of a complete blow-up increase as his polling #s decrease. Who knows? Maybe the deconstruction of George Walker Bush will publicly occur at the RNC during his acceptance speech.

[lumpy]

17. Drugs or not,

Bush's actions, past performance, weird speech and body language indicate that he is simply not wrapped tight. More reason to require physical and psychological testing of candidates for this most important job of leadership.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Did Bob Woodward's book mention Bush's medication?

I haven't read Bob Woodward's latest book. But somewhere I heard that his book mentions the fact that Bush takes prescription medication several times a day. Has anyone else read about this? If so, what kind of medication was it supposed to be?

If the President is required to take drugs in order to avoid a mental breakdown, this could be a big, big story.

[proud patriot]

22. Well it makes sense to me

and explains a lot of the weirdness of bush

[bo44]

23. It's pretty sad that our supposed leader could be backed into a corner

A corner where he must fight against the need to need to be sane while playing out his role as doofus in chief for the enrichment of his daddy's cronies.