Bush "cheerful, serene, peevish, melancholy, and lashing out at aides"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush usually reserves his celebrated temper for senior aides because he knows they can take it. Lately, however, some junior staffers have also faced the boss' wrath. "This is not some manager at McDonald's chewing out the help," said a source with close ties to the White House when told about these outbursts. "This is the President of the United States, and it's not a pleasant sight." The specter of losing Rove, his only truly irreplaceable assistant, lies at the heart of Bush's distress. But a string of political reversals, including growing opposition to the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and Harriet Miers' bungled Supreme Court nomination, have also exacted a personal toll.

Presidential advisers and friends say Bush is a mass of contradictions: cheerful and serene, peevish and melancholy, occasionally lapsing into what he once derided as the "blame game." They describe him as beset but unbowed, convinced that history will vindicate the major decisions of his presidency even if they damage him and his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

At the same time, these sources say Bush, who has a long history of keeping staffers in their place, has lashed out at aides as his political woes have mounted.

"The President is just unhappy in general and casting blame all about," said one Bush insider. "Andy gets his share. Karl gets his share. Even Cheney gets his share. And the press gets a big share."

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/358714p-305660c.html

[Duer 157099]

1. hmmm, in other words, bipolar?

[Chicago Democrat]

2. No, just evil and getting caught....

Id like to send him to the North Pole

[Quakerfriend]

7. You took the words right out of my mouth!!!

:9

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Don't insult bipolar folks like that.

[katty]

3. f/u bush! you should be locked up on meds 24/7

[tridim]

4. I just found this photoshop in my archives, seems to fit..

[Texas_Kat]

5. NO , then he'd have to have a manic side

I'm afraid he just has a maniac side.

[Duer 157099]

6. manic, that's when he goes on spending sprees, right?

[longship]

8. Photoshoppers--Please put * in a straight jacket.

That would look good.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. Or maybe it would just look disturbing...

:evilgrin:

[Punkingal]

9. He really is delusional....

"convinced history will vindicate his decisions." History should record him as the worst president ever.

[ClintonTyree]

15. Really.......

delusional doesn't come close to defining bush's ego. The word has not yet been coined that describes this piece if shit.
His precious "legacy", that he so wanted to resemble St. Reagan's, :eyes: is going to wind up at the opposite end of the desired spectrum. Worst...president....ever. The president that was never supposed to be, and lord knows we'd all be better off if it had never been.

[louis-t]

10. If he ain't 'talking to portraits'

he will be soon.

[Why Syzygy]

11. He's "unhappy"?

awww poor buffoon. Puppet on a string is such a hard job.

He could always save himself and the rest of us and step down.
Blame it on mental incompetence. Or if he insists, he did everything "right" and the whole world just conspired against him.

WHAT A LOSER! Get him out of there. Preferably in handcuffs.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Mentally Unstable???

This is the man trusted with the nuclear football ??

Forget impeachment..... let the mental competency
hearings begin and someone please put that nutjob-in-chief
in a straightjacket before someone gets hurt

[Uncle Joe]

14. Bush "cheerful, serene, peevish, melancholy, and lashing out at aides"

And all at the same time, can you say walking on eggshells? I knew you could.

[bluedog]

16. Unfit for Command n/t

[Wordie]

18. Just heard them talking about his lashing out and MOOD SWINGS on FOX!

I NEVER thought I would hear something like that coming from anyone on FOX!!!

We have entered a new era. Nothing will be the same ever again.

[Why Syzygy]

21. Is this going to be the first removal from

office due to total mental breakdown? He's there. I can see it. And I'm not even a professional.

[Wordie]

22. I don't know which is more astounding, that he is having mood swings, OR

that they are TALKING ABOUT IT ON FOX NEWS!

[Arkana]

19. Prince Chimpy's cranky cause he might lose his left and right brains

i.e. KKKarl and DDDick.

[Rob H.]

20. What the...?!

If he's really "cheerful and serene" I'd like to add "deluded and out of touch" to that list.

[WinkyDink]

23. Man, he didn't age well.

With any luck, he won't any more, either.

[senseandsensibility]

24. Cheney gets his share?

I find that very hard to imagine.