I Think Bush *Wants* To Be Impeached

[MannyGoldstein]

I'm beginning to think that Bush wants to be impeached - his almost-immediate dismissal of Baker's commission's plan today, along with the strange way he's looked recently, make me suspect that he wants to end his own suffering in what he perceives as a "manly" way, rather than having to admit that he killed a lot of people and spent a lot of money for nothing.

[nini]

1. he's too egocentric to even think he may be wrong

He doesn't care what ANYONE says about him being wrong - it's not him it's them in his twisted psyche.

[NOLADEM]

2. He certainly is in a daze recently

My guess is that he just looks stunned from the change in who's hand is up his ass controlling his strings. New hand, new face.

Baker's hand might just be cold. Old people's hands are always cold.

He had to dismiss the Baker commish findings right off because he couldn't look like he was desperate for a new direction. In due time, I suspect 41 and Baker will get their way.

[angry_chuck]

3. just like most assholes who want to fight

they want you to punch them so they can say you started it. F*ck them. Remember that SOuth Park episode with Bin Laden where he says 'Jihad' over and over? Just supplant Bush for Bin Laden and 'Executive Privilege' for Jihad. Same plot, same story? SHit...

[gkhouston]

9. yes, he does seem to be trying to pick a fight with everyone around him.

Bad move. :popcorn:

[MADem]

4. Why, so he can go back to living on his ranch and playing Mister

Four Hundred Acres and a Fool?

Hell, he'd be better off faking an illness and getting some sort of sympathy send-off. Perhaps he fears getting indicted after the fact, and worries that Cheney won't issue him that pardon he'd need...

[Lexingtonian]

5. it has strange vibes

I think you're right- he wants to be put out of his misery. He's no good at being stoic and utterly hates his situation. Like his hero Nixon, he's going to be tagged with a losing war and and all the stupidity/immorality that goes with waging one by choice. There's no recovery from that. And all he really really wanted was (a) Hussein killed 'cause he abused Poppie and (b) some Big Man Iraqi to thank him profusely on camera for providing his country with freedom, democracy, Xboxes, and oil contracts that benefit their Houston country club buddies.

I keep on thinking of 'suicide by cop' as I watch him. That's when people decide to do something really outrageous and violent and retributive, so that the police shoot and kill them. Very trailer park.

[cassiepriam]

6. Yes, a part of him may want out. The job isn't fun for him anymore.

Impeachment would be a way out.

[Demeter]

10. He Could Just Quit

Leave the country for Saudi Arabia, or Paraguay, or the Palace in Baghdad, and just "forget" to come back--like what he did in the National Guard. Desertion, that's what it's called.
Or be a little classy, and resign to spend more time with his family.

[cassiepriam]

12. We can only hope......

[CrispyQ]

7. You may be right.

I think his perception of being president & the reality of his presidency are two different things. I think this is turning into a nightmare for him & he wants out.

Personally, I hope his two temrs take decades off his life.

[justice1]

8. He should resign.

[Writer]

11. You're witnessing a mental disease in full realization...

if it's self-destruction that you think you're seeing, I couldn't agree more.

[cassiepriam]

14. And I think he will continue to decompensate............

[olshak]

13. I'd be happy to give the bastard a hand n/t

[shance]

15. He's been used like Ronald Reagan was used.

By the same individuals who used Reagan during his two terms as president.

[Demeter]

16. They Were Both More Than Willing To Be "Used"

so don't bother manufacturing any sympathy for either Bush or Reagan. They aren't entitled to it.

[sofa king]

17. I think it would be unwise to consider his professional actions... his own.

If his rejection of his daddy's consigliere's advice isn't yet another chapter of bait-and-switch political theatre a la Harriet Miers, scripted line and verse by Karl Rove and a host of others other than the President, then someone else wants the President impeached and has instructed the President to act accordingly.

This President is not competent to make decisions on his own and is surrounded by people who are not competent to make decisions on their own but who are more clever and manipulative than the President himself and they are capable of driving him into an alligator pit on a Segway--if they can prevent him from falling off of it.

November 30 is National Annoying Overlong Sentence Day.