What's causing bush's new Jaw Grinding Tic?

[mopaul]

i first noticed it, a very glaring and new facial tic, one that he'd never had before, in the debates against Kerry. everyone noticed how hyperactive he acted, but i noticed an entirely new facial action that reminded me of certain speed freaks and meth heads i've known.

he is still doing it in every public appearance. after a word, he'll sort of stick his jaw out from left to right in an open mouthed sort of grind, and he does it often, as often as he says 'uhhhh'.

so among all the other tics, smirking, sneering, glaring, grimacing, and aping, you can add the odd jaw jacking motion. he never had this facial tic UNTIL THE DEBATES, i've been watching.

what's causing it? my guess is he's HEAVILY medicated, and possibly even doing meth. afterall, they give it to our fighter pilots, and he's been known to dress up as one.

[unhappycamper]

1. Off topic: that's your best chimpy picture yet.

On topic, something may be wearing off or interacting with other 'medication.'

[Zorbuddha]

2. It's a tell.

He does it when he's uncomfortable with the facts and has to massage the truth or come up with some extemporaneous doublespeak.

It means he is definitively lying.

[liveoaktx]

13. And add blinking furiously while lying to that

[CWebster]

3. All of his mannerisms are peculiar and\or creepy

Sometimes he sniffs like a junky too.

He is repulsive to watch. Sort of like watching William F. Buckly without the reptilian cleverness.

[LaurenG]

4. I think he's stressed

He has been caught and they can't figure a way out. He looks like a guilty man to me. Plus he seems to have a really bad temper and he's trying not to go off on camera.

On edit, spelling etc.

[ClintonTyree]

5. The decades of drug and alcohol abuse.........

are taking it's toll. And if anyone thinks he "on the wagon", and has been since his political career started, I've got some prime ocean-front property in Nevada to sell you.

[ThomWV]

6. Poor Boy Needs A Vacation

If he can find Laura this week they ought to head down to the pig farm for a couple of months. That might help.

[mtnester]

15. That boy needs another vacation like I need to gain 20 lbs.

NOT..he takes more vacation in one year than most of us get in a decade or so.

What he NEEDS to do is get a better device to help him keep his LIES straight. That may help.
:dilemma:

[charlie]

7. Back on the Peruvian flake?

I've lost track of the times I've seen him suddenly do the anus-mouth thing and honk a big slurpy gob of snot back up his nose. His staff needs to jam a hanky into his suit pocket and tell him to use it once in a while.

Poppy ought open his Halcyon stash to Junior. Tweaking and snorting are definitely not what you want to be doing when stress plasters you to the wall.

[Swamp Rat]

8. Right, cocaine.

... or else he needs a dosage increase of his heavy duty, spaceman on Mars meds.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thanks for the tic alert. Want to see it. Inspired photo! n/t

[formercia]

10. Hitler was overmedicated too.

and everyone paid the price.

[radwriter0555]

11. No more getting banged in the Oval Office by Jeff Gannon is having a toll

on bush's stress levels, I'm sure.

[dbt]

12. It's GOT to be some sort of ADD medication.

Prior to 9/11, the WLF (Worthless Little Fuck) couldn't even read two sentences from his note cards without descending quickly into a mishmash of vocalized pauses and damn-near stammers.

Flash forward a few days and think back on his major address to the nation after September Eleventh Changed Things Forever. He was suddenly able to read his cards with a passing semblance of fluency. It was a MIRACULOUS turnaround, wannit? The kind that is only drug-induced, I says.

My pet (goat) theory is that his handlers began administering Ritalin or Cylert or maybe Dexedrine to him on 9/11, because they knew he'd have to be able to string literally dozens of words together without fucking up--in order to have any sort of credibility as he Led This Great Nation To Victory.

So, he's been ingesting stimulants for the better part of four years now, in an effort to keep (what's left of) his tiny brain focused. To stay on task, as they say. I don't have much personal experience with stimulants, so I don't know much about the long term side effects of such use. But from what I have heard, bu$hler looks to be exhibiting the behavior of a speed freak.

Whatcha want to bet that his doctors are having to do the Elvis thing with him: a round of pills to get him (literally) up in the morning and another round to take him down at bedtime.

SIDEBAR: yo, mo! Good to see you back, just when we all need a hit of your gentle humor!

[Sydnie]

14. I have seen it too

It gets worse when someone asks him a question that he knew was coming but hoped would be avoided. It could very well be a stimulant driven tic. My guess would be a time released ADD/ADHD medication like Ritalin. Facial tics are a common side effect of these medications.

I thought I was the only one that noticed it. Glad you posted this.

[maddezmom]

16. looks like someone on coke

and I noticed too.

[leftchick]

17. That is what I thought as well

cokehead. he is still using.

[hexola]

18. Back on COCAINE....classic symptom...

The grinding jaw and wiggly lips are a sure sign of an evening with Mr Charlie...

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Yeah.

Sustained L-dopa surge...methamphetamines do the same thing, though (including Ritalin and Adderall, which are used to treat some of the disorders we've speculated Bush may have).