George W. Bush: A dangerous, cornered, rabid animal

[dtotire]

December 13, 2006 7:18 AM | Rant | Comments (0)

By DOUG THOMPSON

My gut tells me the President of the United States has become a cornered animal - wary of a party that has all but shunned him, distrustful of even his closest advisors, angry at an American public that has rejected him and fearful of his own inability to cope with his growing madness.

White House insiders tell me George W. Bush grows more sullen and moody with each passing day. His paranoia, they say, is increasing to manic levels as he launches into tirades about traitors in his own party, in the press and among his allies.

They describe a man living on the edge and stepping too often over it.

Bush, they say, feels betrayed by former Secretary of State James Baker who he now feels held his administration up for public humiliation in the Iraq Study Group report. Although he told the press after meeting with ISG co-chairs Baker and Lee Hamilton that the White House will take the group's recommendations "very seriously," Bush says privately that he has no intention of going along with their plan.

"Fuck 'em," Bush reportedly said after his breakfast meeting with Baker and Hamilton last week. "I'm the President. I'm the one who decides what's best for this country."

Reports from within the White House show an administration in turmoil, torn from within by dissension over a failed Iraq war policy that everyone but Bush says is a no-win situation.

I wish I had proof of this. I don't. I have snippets of information passed on by people who should be in a position to know along with rumors and a gut instinct honed by 40 years of watching politicians try to squirm their way out of trouble.




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[Donnachaidh]

1. is there a link to this?

I see the copyright at the bottom, but is there a link to an external site?

[Dirty Hippie]

4. Here ya go

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/news2/2006/12/george_w_bush_a.html

[opihimoimoi]

2. When are those Ball Bearings coming out???

[Donnachaidh]

3. I can just see the ad now

Bush has got a Little Captain in him!

Captain Queeg! :eyes:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Good old CHB. A guilty pleasure, I confess.

All unattributable sources, conversations recreated on speculation, complete with quotation marks.

And, of course, every single one of Thompson's articles validates exactly what I (and most of us) believe is happening behind the scenes at the cabal's WH.

So, a toast to my favorite shoddy journalist, Doug Thompson! :toast: MKJ

[Imagevision]

20. I wonder if Laura has abandoned him?

[Olney Blue]

22. She and Barney have been sighted in Georgetown looking for a townhouse.

:)

[Hissyspit]

28. Yellow journalism...

that I can't really imagine is off the mark very much at all. What else would be happening in the WH right now?

[global1]

6. It Is Time For The Repug Party To Do Something About This....

time bomb in the WH. If they have a conscious and really care about this country and the American people - they should act to remove this regime in the WH from power - before its too late - - to late for both their party and the country.

I got to think that there are many back room discussions going on in the Repug party about this very issue.

They can't be blind to what * is doing to us or could do.

[calimary]

15. I wrote about exactly that - just a couple of days ago. "The Goldwater Moment."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3011262

I think you're absolutely correct. And if it's true that he's gonna dig in his heels and DO "stay the course" (even while SAYING something else, or CALLING IT something else), I think they're gonna realize they have no choice if they're gonna salvage ANYTHING with the voters in 2008. If he stays pigheaded on this, they WILL be discussing throwing him overboard to save themselves. He'll be the only thing in the way. And it may get so bad they'll be thinking of a two-fer: bush AND cheney both, if they realize that getting rid of bush doesn't change anything because cheney will keep it going. I don't have any insider knowledge or connections, but I'm sure down to my bone marrow that you're correct. I'd bet hard money that, at the very least, it's coming up for discussion, even if it's quickly hushed up. And THAT won't remain the same for long, either. Soon it won't be quickly hushed up anymore, as bush digs in his heels and maintains that he alone knows best, while the situation in Iraq just sinks farther down the crapper.

FURTHERMORE, what I think will severely complicate things for bush/cheney/the GOP will be the coverage that will inevitably come (and not just from Olbermann) about how many more Americans will have died while bush is waiting to make his big-ass speech after New Year's. About how he diddled while Iraq burned. I suspect that will bring things to a fever pitch. For example, in the column I wrote, I mentioned Oregon republi-CON Gordon Smith and his cry-in-yer-beer speech at the end of the Senate session - how he couldn't support this war anymore and had tried so hard to be a good soldier and couldn't do it anymore - HE'S up for reelection in 2008, and I suspect what's uppermost in his mind is saving his own skin by then, too.

BTW - I'd also watch closely as some of his colleagues who, like him, are next to go through the ringer, twist in the wind over what to do now: saxby THE-CHICKENHAWK-WHO-SCREWED-MAX-CLELAND chambliss and smarmy normy THEY-KILLED-PAUL-WELLSTONE-FOR-HIM coleman, among others. As with reading "Capitol Hill Blue" - it'll be another guilty pleasure.

[Bobbie Jo]

23. Agreed....they need to pick up their kid and take him home...n/t

[femrap]

24. Remember Poppy and all his tears? I figured

he had just given the OK for a hit on his stupid first born. Better he go down as a martyr than the absolute Worst.

That's a bit over the top...so why not go the Intervention route and Poppy declares that with all the stress of the war that W has begun drinking again and he has been, as a result, straitjacketed and sent off to Rehab (just like Foley and Gibson)...it's the fashionable, easy way to get the US out of a horrid, deadly mess. And everyone will totally believe it. Then W just goes to Paraguay to live on all of those acres the family recently purchased.

Pelosi '07.

[Hardrada]

26. Take Babs, Pickles and the Twins along!

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. This is pretty scary.

I've given up on impeachment. But I think there is a very good chance that pressure will mount for Bush to resign.

And then things could get really ugly.

[w4rma]

14. The way to go about impeaching this guy is to build up a well of investigations into his corruption.

Then as more and more Republican politicians fear for their own political lives, we'll be able to create a critical mass of politicians in *both* chambers who will vote to impeach Bush and Cheney.

But, more important than the impeachment is the fact that these investigations will take down major players who have been around, and plan to be around, for many years.

There is ****massive**** corruption that needs to be investigated and procecuted in both the courts and the court of public opinion.

Also, it's important, imho, to not go into the investigations with the intent to impeach. Just allow the investigations to run their course and impeachment will just follow.

[formercia]

8. Fearless Leader is just trying to prove

he can screw the pooch better than his old man.:evilgrin:

[HuffleClaw]

9. a fair assessment i'd say

i've been saying for a long time that bush, being at heart a none-too-bright schoolyard bully, has YET to demonstrate how dangerous he can be, though i really expected him to snap some time ago. i suppose cooler heads prevailed and managed to just barely rein him in?

i think the plan had been to go to war with iran &/or syria during that ugly israeli rape of lebanon, but the syrians wouldn't play as bushco. intended. instead it was israel who ended up being the 'bad guy' in the worlds eyes so now they need a new 'game plan'. as for iraq, the plan has been for a loong time in my estimation, to simply withdraw the troops to their 'superbases' (thus guarding the oil, which is the only honest reason they are even in iraq to begin with) and leave the cities to the iraqi civil war. they'll need a 'justification' of course, and only a couple come to mind immediately. one, a mass casualty event involving a bunch of dead american soldiers, or two, a pretense of handing control of the cities to the iraqis.

[Virginia Dare]

10. Not particularly dangerous anymore,

he's been defanged, as has Cheney. The problem is, those that have defanged them are still dangerous.

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. every day he puts off making changes in Iraq is a dangerous

day for american soldiers and Iraqi citizens. He is making a political decision about something that should be above politics. That is dangerous.

[Virginia Dare]

12. I don't know that it's so much political...

as it is his own stubborn ego. Like the petulant child that he is, he doesn't want to be told what to do. I also don't think he has a clue as to how to proceed, as he is stupid, incurious, and drunk most of the time.

But your point is well taken, yes, in that sense, he is dangerous, but I think eventually, probably quite soon, matters will be taken into hands other than his.

[Botany]

13. Totaly undocumented hear say

Nice story but what part is real.

C.H.B., "We make it up you decide."

[happydreams]

16. Yep. nt

[Bjorn Against]

17. Don't insult rabid animals!

I would MUCH RATHER have a rabid pit bull on crack in the White House than what we have now.

[unlawflcombatnt]

18. And Stupid, Too

He left that out.

[Imagevision]

19. Pelosi must keep this Bush on a short leash, he's sick and he's dangerous

what happens if Bush decides he wants to nuke Iran, because he's the commander-in-chief, do we just go along with this accepting repug logic as we go along? -- that's the way it's been the past 6 years!

[diane in sf]

21. Bush as a pustule

I think of Bush as a pustule on top of a big money, oily, PNACy pocket of pus. Some congressional oversight, investigations etc. could be quite helpful in exposing and clearing out this garbage and helping restore our democracy. Bush may may help things along by erupting into obvious craziness.

[zulchzulu]

25. Bush is a coward, a conman, a hypocrite and knowledge-challenged

It's just a matter of time before he self-destructs...worse than Nixon did.

[opihimoimoi]

27. Knowledge Challenged??? I just love it, LOL

Another way of sayin DUMB and STUPID beyond comprehension...esp for the job.....In way over his head.