The Angry Bush
I’d have posted about this last night, but after hearing of the death of Rosa Parks, decided to shut down for the night and leave the post about her death at the top of the blog for the night. Of course, last night it broke all over the blogs that Libby learned of Plame’s identity from Cheney. That comes from the New York Times just a week or so after whispers first began that the Vice President was somewhere in the center of this scanda.
I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.
Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby’s testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said.
The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first time place Mr. Cheney in the middle of an effort by the White House to learn about Ms. Wilson’s husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was questioning the administration’s handling of intelligence about Iraq’s nuclear program to justify the war.
Lawyers said the notes show that Mr. Cheney knew that Ms. Wilson worked at the C.I.A. more than a month before her identity was made public and her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003
Damn. No wonder Bush is pissed. Not only is this scandal threatening to relieve him of his “brain,” in the person of Karl Rove, but to also deprive him of Cheney, who manage to lend some gravitas to an administration otherwise made of up the not-ready-for-prime-time players. Of course, considering that Cheney’s squandered whatever credibility he had with the nonsense he’s been spouting from day one about Iraq and WMD’s, the president might be well rid of him
I’ve posted about Bush’s temper once or twice before, and now the Washington Post and The New York Daily News are bearing it out. Others have written lately of the president’s twitchiness and jaw-grinding, and speculated about the causes or reasons. I’m guessing that Bush is finally starting to feel the pressure. Not bad for a guy who’s spend most of his presidency doing his best imitation of Alfred E. Neuman.
I’m guessing that all that twitching and jaw-grinding is just barely holding back the explosions he saves for White House underlings. With three years left to go in his term, I’m guessing — and half hoping — that he snaps and publicly lets loose one of the obscenity-laden outbursts he’s apparently famous for backstage, while the cameras are rolling and the microphones are on.
I’m not saying it’ll do much further damage to his or his party’s approval ratings. Just seems like it’d be a pretty good show.
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October 25th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
So the brat is having temper tantrums. How surprising!
Dubbya has beeen sheltered from his mistakes his entire life. He screwed up every bbusiness venture he ever went into, and was saved by Papa’s cronies. His youthful indicretions were always papered over. So, what else is there to expect from someone who was never asked to take responsibility for his own actions? The guy has no clue that he could possibly be culpable for anything.
During the 2004 campaign, he was asked about the mistakes he had made in the first four years, and could not remember any! It is not that he cannot remember, it is that he genuinely believes he has not ever made a mistake.
We have a President who is clinically demented. He is a sociopath. Witness his callous comment about his partying days in New Orleans on his first visit to Mississipi after the Katrina disater. People had been — and were — dying, and he joked about
his partying days? And commented on how much he was looking forward to sit on the porch of Trent Lott’s house when it would be rebuild?
This is not just mere callousness. It is mental illness.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
I, too, have been predicting (to anybody who would listen) of an eventual psychological and emotional meltdown from our CIC.
It’s-a-comin’.
Time to rubberneck a stretch.
October 26th, 2005 at 12:40 am
I’m not so sure George W Cunt’s lack of empathy is callousness so much as it is that he is oblivious to what it means to be poor. I would that say he probably has Narcissistic personality disorder. It certainly matches up with him.
October 26th, 2005 at 5:52 am
Of course W. has been played off a break by the WHIGs in the rush to war. He is a foreign policy chump who didn’t even know the name of the Pakistani President on the 2000 campaign trail. It is not the fact that he is a dolt that bothers me. It is his cruelty. He has got a mean streak a mile wide. He serially bullies his underlings. Each is branded with a demeaning sobriquet with poor Karl bearing the unkindest tag of all. And that’s just at the office. Home and away is an expanded ditto.
Post indictments, don’t expect a lot of grace under fire, as the WHIG war hoax is absorbed by the GOP base. First though, his coterie will be culled as a result of certain jurisprudential imperatives. I expect W. will be quite a handful for his new handlers. It’s just a matter of time really, before he slips the leash and lets the side down. Should be quite a show. Toodle pip.
October 26th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
Ryan, I wouldn’t even say "probably": Bush is the poster child for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
His obliviousness is callousness. Nothing is real except himself, and the world is exactly the way he wants it to be because, well, he wants it.
I’ve seen an NPD meltdown. It really is not pretty. Let’s just hope the survival instincts of the people around him prompt them to grab the oars before he takes us all down with him.
October 26th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
He’s already the living embodiment of <i>The Dead Zone</i>’s Gregg Stillson, the corrupt politician whose career is ruined when he holds up a baby as a human shield. I can’t wait for his own Gregg Stillson moment.
October 26th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
The nickname “Turdblossom” isn’t really an insulting name if you are versed with Texas-isms. A turdblossom is a very good nickname for Rove. See, a turdblossom is the name given to the flower that is often seen to grow from cowflop. Think about that for a minute and think about Rove, his modus operandi, and you see how very apt is the “Turdblossom” sobriquet.
October 27th, 2005 at 8:39 am
And obscenity-laden tyrade? That would be fun and certainly help to break the tension in the country. Not to mention turning him into an object of ridicule for those of all political persuasions.
I am more afraid, however, of the real tantrum scenario. Deprived of all restraining influence, reviled on all sides, what better way to try to reclaim his former glory than to unilaterally begin bombing nuclear power plants in Iran?
I can imagine his deluded brain would see this as a way to make people "like him like they usedter."
Of course, the Iranian army would immediately pour across the border into Iraq, and our exhausted forces would suddenly face a war against real soldiers on top of the insurgency.
Well, then again, perhaps President Butch really does believe the Christian claptrap he mouths and is trying to hasten Armageddon. If only he could find that damn Antichrist! Without looking in the mirror, that is.