Bush Aides Think He's Cracking Up

[mistertrickster]

Got this e-mailed to me today. Looks like one of those Capital Hill gossip rags, but everything they say jibes with the reality we've been seeing.

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'In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

“We’re at war, there’s no doubt about it. What I don’t know anymore is just who the enemy might be,” says one troubled White House aide. “We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing.”'


http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml

[NMDemDist2]

1. yeah i read that last nite, who is the guy behind the site tho

can't find any bon fides on him

[mistertrickster]

2. Is this a dupe?

I searched for it but couldn't find it . . .

[seemslikeadream]

13. It's here last call should be soon there's 280 replies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=602189&mesg_id=602189

[scarletwoman]

3. Sorry, this same article has already been posted at least 2 or 3 times

And capitolhillblue.com is not considered to be a credible source.

sw

[mistertrickster]

5. I noticed that everything was "off the record" -- that right there makes

it not too trustworthy.

On the other hand, I think the scenario they point out about Tenet getting bitch-slapped during a meeting sounds a lot more plausible than he just suddenly wanted to resign.

[scarletwoman]

6. Yes, it's "plausible" -- if only because it fits so neatly

into our own preconceptions and prejudices. That's a red flag for me. The fact that this article has gotten so much attention when there is NO way to confirm its credibility speaks to the power of belief systems over rationality -- people are glomming onto this piece because they WANT to believe it, not because its demonstrably factual.

Sure, it could be true. But it could just as easily have been totally made up by someone with the same antipathy toward bush* that the rest of us feel.

I'd say skepticism is the better part of valor here. Unless and until a real and identifable "White House aide" makes a clean break from her/his masters and comes out publicly, we ought to remain wary of being played for suckers.

sw

[seemslikeadream]

8. THESE GUYS SEEM TO THINK SO

He's Acting Like Nixon in the Final DaysHas Bush Gone Over the Edge?


By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A sensational account of an imploding George Bush is making the rounds.

It's by Doug Thompson, the publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, put out in the dawn hours of June 4.

"President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind."

So begins Thompson's insider report. He goes on,

"In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as 'enemies of the state.'

"It reminds me of the Nixon days," says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. "Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there." He was obviously talking of late, Watergate-enmired Nixon, when a drunken president would rail on far into the night, and when Kissinger put it around that he had taken over command of the nuclear button.

And talking of the nuclear button, Thompson says he's interviewed, off-the-record, a number of White House staffers who talk of Bujsh declaring that his decisions are "God's will" and then tells aides to "fuck over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

He quotes one aide as telling him, "We're at war, there's no doubt about it. What I don't know anymore is just who the enemy might be. We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing."

more
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06042004.html


King George Has Gone Insane
by Kurt Nimmo
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Nimmo0605.htm

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.sophists.org/article312.html

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-13.htm

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/06/04/0953763

Over the Edge
The Madness of King George
By KURT NIMMO
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06052004.html

[donhakman]

11. mission

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Scary

Here's two paragraphs (think this is ok, isn't it, mods? It's from the article linked above):

In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

“We’re at war, there’s no doubt about it. What I don’t know anymore is just who the enemy might be,” says one troubled White House aide. “We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing.”


This shows two features of Bush-his weird take on God and his infatuation with politics rather than statesmanship.

This is getting really scary, folks.

[many a good man]

7. Bush is a neurologically-impaired psychotic

Where's the news?

[seemslikeadream]

9. Psych profile+fascism receptivity+Lakoff's family framing concept

FROM JohnOneillsMemory in LBN
Psych profile+fascism receptivity+Lakoff's family framing concept links.


This is entirely predictable. Bush* suffers from severe mental illness as has been well documented. We're experiencing Columbine High School on a global level.

Georgie was abused by his mother, shadowed by his father, shamed for mourning his sister's death and belittled in general. He became a self-destructive alcoholic with a cruel streak.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
(So George, How Do You Feel About Your Mom and Dad?)

His 'authoritarian personality' matches what researchers discovered to be a marker for 'fascism receptivity' when the phenomenon was researched after WWII.
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
(The F-factor questionnaire)

More recently, researchers have analyzed the components of the conservative personality. Their findings point to the fear-based tendencies that are similar in fundamentalist religious views and fascism receptivity, again the 'authoritarian personality.'
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml
(What Makes Up a Conservative Personality)

This family experience modeling sets us up for how we view all our relationships at work and in government, too. Linguist George Lakoff explains how this 'framing' is used in political language and propaganda.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
(Lakoff Explains Framing as Key to Thinking)

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=12&ItemID=4294
(Lakoff Explains Gender Language in Promoting War)

[NMDemDist2]

10. interesting eom

[donhakman]

12. TIA

[Moderator]

14. Duplicate item. Locking.

Others;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=602189

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