Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

[snowbird42]

I know this guy is sometimes suspect, but I love to read him!!!!



Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
For all practical purposes, governing the nation has stopped at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as aides deal with an increasingly despondent President, mounting scandals and defecting dissidents from the Ship of State.

White House insiders say George W. Bush’s mood swings have increased to the point where meetings with the President must be cancelled, schedules shifted and plans changed to keep a bitter, distracted leader from the public eye.

“He’s like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance,” says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified. “Other times he launches into angry outbursts, cussing out anybody who gets near him.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7560.shtml

[NYCGirl]

1. No, he's ALWAYS suspect. NT

[Demit]

7. Can't argue with this on-the-record quote he got:

“The façade is gone and we are now seeing the Bush White House in all its incompetent glory,” says retired political science professor George Harleigh. “They’ve ignored reality for too long.”

I realize the anonymous White House insider stuff about the blivet's drinking, etc last year was suspect, but who's to say it's not true? It might come out in future years in all those WH aides' memoirs, when it's finally safe to go on the record...

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. SHH don't tell anybody but Issikof put the almost exact

story about bush drinking in News Week two weeks ago iirc.

[Demit]

19. Do you mean the National Enquirer story, maybe?

I don't recall anything in Newsweek about it.

[Mabus]

2. all its incompetent glory

"The façade is gone and we are now seeing the Bush White House in all its incompetent glory," says retired political science professor George Harleigh. "They’ve ignored reality for too long."

That sums it up. Playtime is over, time for all of Junior's minions to see the truth.

[Vickers]

3. Sorry George, Nixon beat you to the tortured Shakespearean tragic figure

thing, you gotta think of something else. :spank:

[Fovea]

4. That's what worries me.

Someone tell ** that Nixon beat him to the "crazy man with his finger on the button" gambit too.

What better distraction than nukularizing Tehran or Damascus?

[peekaloo]

11. He's the Jerry Lundegaard of American politics.

:D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. ROFL!

[PATRICK]

5. CapitolHillBlue

Has had Bush stalking around the Oval Office like a drugged up crazed Macbeth for quite a while now. The fact that no one is raising the old credibility alert right away is signs that their memes may be approaching reality or at least strong likelihood with some evidence.

Still, this is not the usual reporting of the present leakage from the West Wing.

[SledDriver]

6. “He’s like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance”

That's just the booze and cocaine. :-)

[Mend]

8. Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker....just a suggestion eom

[calimary]

9. The article speaks of "gallows humor" through the hallways. I guess

this is what brit hume meant, on Pox "news" earlier this week, when he talked about how there's "laughter in the White House." Some of us posted about this, almost all of us voicing suspicion that this was gallows humor. Interesting to see it come up here. Granted, this source is considered somewhat flaky, but he's sure been spot-on talking about bush's deterioration and the White House fears over his mood swings.

Even if this one's only partly true, it's perked me up like NOBODY'S BUSINESS!!!! I LOVE the smell of exploding republi-CON heads in the morning!

:party: :bounce: :party: :bounce:

[tridim]

10. "Says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified"

That reason isn't at all obvious to me. If he's worried about getting fired, why? It doesn't sound like a very nice place to work anyway. I wonder what he really meant by that? The mind boggles.

[tanyev]

12. Oh, this should be fun.

Wilkerson isn’t the only high-profile Republican operative bailing on Bush. Bruce Bartlett, who served as a Senior Policy Advisor in Bush’s father’s administration, is about to release a book:Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Destroyed the Reagan Legacy. Bartlett lost his job at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative Texas think tank, when word of his book project leaked out.

:popcorn:

[RamboLiberal]

13. Amazon says that one comes out in April 2006

Just in time for primaries and election year - :toast:

[0007]

14. The Carlyle Group is on Pennsylvania Avenue also. Wonder

how they're feeling these days, other than richer?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I know many round these parts tend not to believe CHB

but in this one the MSM is TRAILING them....

Grab your popcorn folks, it will be fun

:popcorn:

[Contrary1]

17. Oh my...

“I’m not sure the State Department even exists anymore,” Col. Larry Wilkerson, Powell’s chief of staff, told the audience of journalists and scholars. “It, like so many others things, have been destroyed by George W. Bush’s ‘cowboyism.’”

Wilkerson dismisses the Administration’s attempts to improve America’s image abroad.

“You can’t sell shit,” he said.

Need some shit? Smirk has plenty.