Government by Temper Tantrum

[paineinthearse]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7509.shtml

Government by Temper Tantrum
By DOUG THOMPSON
Oct 11, 2005, 06:53

President George W. Bush’s temper tantrums are on the rise with White House insiders reporting increasing tongue-lashing of staffers, obscenity-filled outbursts and a leader driven to the edge by what he sees as party disloyalty and a country that no longer trusts him. Conservative backlash over his latest Supreme Court nominee may, in fact, have pushed the President over the edge. “He’s out of control,” one White House aide says privately. “There’s no other way to put it. His anger spills over in meetings. He berates anyone who brings him bad news but there's not a lot of good news we can bring the President right now. He calls other Republicans 'motherfucking traitors' and it is becoming more and more of a challenge to keep that anger from showing in public.”



A Bush White House that has always prided itself with an ability to shield the President’s weaknesses from the public faces a mounting list of embarrassing public incidents. The most recent came when Bush fled Washington to avoid the largest anti-war rally since Vietnam, some reporters asked him if he was running away. “No goddamn it,” he snapped back. “I’m going to keep track of Hurricane relief.” Then he flew out of town to a command center in Colorado to watch what was happening in New Orleans, something he could easily monitored from the situation room of The White House. Reporters present said Bush shoved his way past aides to get away from more questions.



“Bush was happy to get out of town and track Hurricane Rita last weekend as a way of displaying his new-found interest in the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in the Gulf area,” wrote Helen Thomas of Hearst Newspapers. “He flew to Austin, Texas, and spent the night in San Antonio. He traveled to a command center in Colorado, where he was able to monitor Hurricane Rita while an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Americans converged on Washington and peacefully demonstrated against the Iraq war. Their protest included a march in front of the White House.”



The mainstreamers have long joked about Bush’s temper tantrums but have only recently started writing about them. “There's a doctoral dissertation to be written about Bush appointees named during the administration's frequent fits of Petulant Pique,” Molly Ivins writes. “These PP appointments are made in the immortal childhood spirit of "nanny-nanny boo-boo, I'll show you.”

(the article concludes with two great excepts from Time & The Observer)

[rosesaylavee]

1. Nanny nanny boo boo!!!!

I love Molly. No one has her style!

:rofl:

[MichiganVote]

2. Bush believes his own bullshit...comes the reaper instead

[Demobrat]

3. Since Gore's presidency was stolen I have had two recurring dreams.

Well, I have them when I'm awake, but they still count.

In one, W is perp-walked out of the WH.

In the other, he throws a full-blown, foaming-at-the-mouth fit in public.

What if they both came true at once?

It could happen. It could REALLY HAPPEN!

Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseoh please.

[rosesaylavee]

4. Wait, that's my dream!!

:hug:

[Booster]

6. That's my dream as well. Nothing would please me more than

to have this arrogant, petulant little man pitch a hissy fit on TV and show the entire world exactly what he is; and I, too, think it just might happen.

[davikim]

5. the only reason I watch him on tv

is so I don't miss the melt down moment. I'm so sure it's gonna happen and I wnat to see it live.