BUSH UNBALANCED AS POLLS PLUMMET

[paineinthearse]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Niagra Falls Reporter is Rep. Louise Slaughter's home town paper and was the first in the nation to editorially call for exposing Guckert for what he was.

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher228.html

BUSH UNBALANCED AS POLLS PLUMMET
By Bill Gallagher

DETROIT -- With George W. Bush, a certifiable madman, in power, it shouldn't be surprising that the rest of our republic is going bonkers. Bush, our commander in sleep, has spread the virus of neo-fascist fever and the bug is gripping our nation like the flu in February. The evidence is compelling. The national commander of the American Legion demands an end to all "public protests" and "media events" against the war. Commander Thomas Cadmus declared, at the legion's convention in Honolulu, that "it would be tragic if the freedoms our veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be used against their successors today."

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...at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Salt Lake City, Bush repeated the great lie of our times -- that the war in Iraq is linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that the imperial war there makes us safer at home. "The lesson of Sept. 11, 2001, is that we must confront the threats before they materialize," Bush said in his speech. Bush speaking to the VFW gathering is like an Orthodox rabbi offering advice on pork recipes to a cooking class. Joyfully, not all the delegates were buying his fantasies. One of them, 73-year-old Bill Moyer, wore cardboard covers over his ears labeled "bullshit protectors."

Such irreverence sent Bush into an obscene tirade, according to a report in Capitol Hill Blue, an online journal that occasionally chronicles Bush's unhinged behavior. Bush refers to those who protest his war as "motherf---king traitors" and he was so enraged when he heard reports about the "bullshit protectors" that he screamed at his aides, "Tell those VFW assholes that I'll never speak to them again if they can't keep their members under control."

Capitol Hill Blue has long dealt with a topic that the corporate media won't touch -- Bush's mental fitness for the presidency and the behavior patterns associated with his addiction-damaged personality. The journal reports Bush's doctors are trying to control his dark moods with anti-depressant drugs. While the Busheviks have sold the myth that their man is an affable "nice guy," the reality is that he is often vile and profane. His explosive temper is increasingly displayed. At a recent strategy session, discussing polls showing most Americans are now against the war and don't believe Bush, he reportedly bellowed to his staff, "I'm the president and I'll do whatever I goddamned please. They don't know shit."

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Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News.

[jbfam4]

1. Thanks for posting

Here's your first vote...great article

[paineinthearse]

6. Please read the entire article

Here's a preview of the ending:

"Former Democratic senator Gary Hart wrote an eloquent op-ed piece in the Washington Post last week urging leaders of his party to stand for something. He chided the "tongue-tied" Democrats, too meek to challenge Bush.

"What will history say about an opposition party that stands silent while all this goes on?" he asked.

Where are senators Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman? They all voted for Bush's war.

As long as those gutless Democrats are the party's "leaders," George W. Bush will continue his senseless war. People with sense are listening to Cindy Sheehan and following her admirable leadership.

[ginnyinWI]

15. Kerry and Biden have been speaking out

I don't know about the others. The problem is that we have no majorities, so speaking is almost all they can really do. That, and working to get some more Democrats in office in Washington. Biden spoke out about Iraq, again, on This Week just last Sunday.

You must know by now that they didn't really vote "for Bush's war". They were voting for something else--for the threat of war, to get Saddam to comply--because that's the only thing that would have made him allow inspectors.

The only ones responsible for this war are George W. Bush and his minions. Period. He would have gone to war, one way or another, regardless of the Congress's opinion. He's been violating laws right and left to get "the job done" as it is. He would not have let a little thing like the U.S. Congress get in his way!

[Stevepol]

22. I disagree we have no majorities. We have majorities everywhere.

It's just that the voting machines won't let these majorities be recognized. The American people are not stupid; they're just disenfranchised. (not my meme, but a good one)

[Mass]

25. Bush will whatever happens

Sorry, but I listened to Hart yesterday on NPR and he was saying exactly what Kerry, Biden and others have been saying all over.

Each time a dem says to oppose Bush, it does not mean he wants to withdraw. Seems to me that Kerry has been opposing Bush all along, and as much as I dislike Biden, he has also and is pretty much in agreement with Hart on that.

[Bluzmann57]

2. VFW people are traitors?

Hmmmm....okay. I suppose bush may not realize that VFW stands for Veterans of Foreign Wars. It does not mean that they are foreigners. Sounds like georgie boy is losing his grip on reality, if he ever really had one. Grounds for impeachment. And insanity defense at war crimes trials.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Shrub knows ya just can't trust them vets.

John Kerry, Wes Clark, John McCain, all veterans, all traitors.

[RedCloud]

32. Since his family worshiped Hitler,

he has to think of veterans as traitors. They fought against grandpa Prescott Bush and his Auschwitz slave labor business.

[Chi]

4. Kewl, so all we need is for one person to set him off while on camera

And that will be the end of him.

"His explosive temper is increasingly displayed."

[tom_paine]

5. Which is why regular people are NEVER allowed near him

Only the Fuhrer's Faithful.

To be honest, would it matter? With the Busheviks at the helm of the Greatest Propaganda Machine in Human History?

Fearless Fuhrer could run down the street with Hiward Dean's severed, bloody head and after 24 hours of Fox Reichspravda, it would be down to a "he said, she said" thing.

I used to say that and think it was a joke, now I am almost certain it's not.

[katinmn]

8. Perhaps the reason he was acting extra silly-goofy yesterday

was the result of new and stronger meds. People said he looked completely off his rocker.

[electropop]

13. Have you seen that show on the History Channel about Hitler's doctors?

They pumped him up on a cocktail including amphetamines, and who knows what else. He couldn't make a speech without a hit. It whipped him up into that signature rage.

By the way, this is post number 1000 for me, and I had hoped to say something brilliant. Oh well... :-(

[katinmn]

14. Good 1000th! And yes, I see a parallel taking place.

[paineinthearse]

20. post number 1000

:party:

I wish you thousands more ahead!

[electropop]

7. Don't be shy, Bill. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

:evilgrin:

Sweet!

[MADem]

9. WRT the bullshit protectors, I read that MANY of the VFW members

...in attendance were sporting them, not just a few, and that they irritated the chimp because he could see a sea of yellow ears in front of him, and knew what they said!!! I wish I could recall where I read it...I also saw a photo of one of the organizers WITH the chimp, sporting his yellow ears!

Eh...you cannot spell coWard without Dubya!!!

[kskiska]

30. Pic of those detectors

[puddycat]

36. LOL that is so heartlifting. yea VFW!!!! priceless! n/t

[Marnieworld]

10. kicking

thanks for posting

[ginnyinWI]

11. I don't really trust Capitol Hill Blue, but

I do think it's got to be getting to him by now. He does not have a very adaptable personality type. I'll be waiting to see evidence of *'s going out of control. He may indeed be the way CHB says, and his people are covering for him. Some of his koolaid-drinking followers will never see the truth.

Or it may be a bit of give-them-what-they-want journalism for the Left.

Adolf Hitler, during his last days (and the last throes of losing his war of aggression) became increasingly more out of touch with reality. He'd issue absurd and impossible to follow commands, which his people just had to ignore. The war was all about him and the reality that he was intent on bringing about--and nobody dared to contradict him for fear of consequences. Everyone was on his fantastic surreal merry-go-round and few could jump off. When he committed suicide he took people around him along with him, and even his dog.

[whometense]

16. I did a little sleuthing,

for what it's worth. I'd love to believe what Capitol Hill Blue says, but I'd love to find some verification.

The author of that article, Doug Thompson has these two websites:

http://www.dougthompson.com/

http://www.dougthompsonmedia.com/

There are some fascinating offshoot sites, including this one: http://www.dcdarkside.com/

Interesting guy, at the very least.

[whometense]

17. Here's more:

http://www.saveamerica.org/founder.html

Doug Thompson realized the value of capturing history 46 years ago as a 10-year-old schoolboy in Farmville, Virginia, when the community, caught up in a fight over integration, closed the public schools and opened an all-white private school.
Thompson wrote about his experiences and submitted his story and photos to The Farmville Herald,the local newspaper. His article and photos were picked up by other newspapers around he country. He developed other photo stories the paper and a journalism career was born.

When his family relocated to the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Floyd, the 14-year-old Thompson took his photographs and stories to Pete Hallman, editor of the weekly Floyd Press. Hallman encouraged the young man to continue writing and taking photos, teaching him the ins and outs of the newspaper business.

Thompson went on to join the staff of The Roanoke Times where he covered the police beat, emerging racial turmoil in the city and tackled other tough subjects. His story about a young girl who obtained an abortion (illegal at the time) won the top feature writing award from the Virginia Press Association. Another, about street racers in the city, won another feature writing award while his coverage of the murder of a Southwest Roanoke couple and the abduction and rape of their teenaged daughters brought the top news writing award from the association

After moving on to The Telegraph in Alton, Illinois, Thompson continued to win awards for writing and photography, capturing the Illinois Associated Press Managing Editors top prizes for news, feature and column writing as well as first place awards from the Illinois Press Association.

Thompson took a sabbatical from newspapers in 1981 and moved to Washington and work on Capitol Hill, where he served as press secretary to two members of Congress (Rep. Paul Findley of Illinois and Rep. Manuel Lujan of New Mexico), Chief of Staff to a third (Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana) and then Special Assistant to the Ranking Member of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee (Lujan again). He also worked on the Reagan-Bush '84 re-election campaign, managed successful Congressional campaigns, did field work for both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee and served as Vice President for Political Programs Administration for the National Association of Realtors from 1987-1992. He later joined The Eddie Mahe Company, a Washington, DC, strategic communications firm, as senior communications associate and remained affiliated with the firm until it was acquired by Foley-Lardner in 2002.

As a writer and photographer, Thompson's work has appeared in a number of publications, including Esquire, Life, Look, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match, AFP, the Associated Press and Reuters.

The House Science committee worked with the National Science Foundation to bring the Internet into the private sector and Thompson, while working for the committee, saw the tremendous potential of the 'Net as a communications tool. He used that foresight to start a web hosting and design company in 1994 and that same year launched Capitol Hill Blue as the web's first political news site.

Besides Blue, Thompson publishes a number of other web sites, including D.C. Darkside., American Newsreel and FloydCounty.Com. He also owns Blue Ridge Creative, a photography, video production and digital imaging company in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 2001, Thompson and his wife launched the Our America project, a 10-year program to document the first decade of the new century through videos, photography and written essays.

Despite his success in new media, Thompson remains a newspaperman at heart and lives by the creed that it is the role of a newspaperman to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

The republican credentials are interesting.

[whometense]

18. SaveAmerica.org's mission:

Save America is a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational foundation created by journalist and photographer Doug Thompson, who also founded Capitol Hill Blue and a number of other web sites and publications.
Save America exists solely to try and cut through the partisanship and misinformation that dominates the Internet and bring facts to the attention of our readers. We have no ax to grind, no hidden agendas to develop, no political philosophies to push.

Save America is funded entirely out of Thompson's personal resources.

We have projects both underway and in the planning stages. Stay tuned for more details.

One of those projects is Capitol Hill Blue:

Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet. Started on October 1, 1994, as a weekly newsletter on politics, Blue has grown over the last decade into a full-fledged, non-partisan news site that covers politics and government with the creed that "nobody's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session." The Washington Post calls Blue "a must-read for political junkies." US News & World Report says the site "serves as an early warning system for developing stories." Blue has been featured in The New York Times, National Journal and many other national news outlets.

[paineinthearse]

19. Thanks for the sleuthing

This is the second Capitol Hill Blue post I have made at DU.

Both had the same, immediate reaction, instant discretization.

[ginnyinWI]

26. thanks for the background

I guess I'm suspicious because it is exactly what those of us on the left like to hear about *, and some of it is so extreme, and that nobody else is reporting anything like it. Someday we may get an insider's account of all this if true. Bob Woodward did hint at this when he described * as being sarcastic toward those who worked for him.

But true or not, our plan should remain the same: get our message out there and get more Dems elected! That is the main thing to focus on. We have to hone our message and reach people like never before.

[paineinthearse]

12. Bill Moyer - one of the VFW members who drove * ballistic

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a "Bullshit Protector" flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4435201

[paineinthearse]

31. Any VFW members / know people who attended

Who would have any pictures of the masses wearing BULLSHIT ear protectors?

[sellitman]

21. My Capitol Hill Blue post got shut down.

I wonder why this one is ok? Apparently the site isn't the most reputable.

[paineinthearse]

24. Apparently the site isn't the most reputable?

All I've read are smears. Not one piece of credible evidence. It's like reading press releases from Mehlman!

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

27. His assertions of Bush's mental condition

are completely within plausible reality. I'll accept it as a working hypothesis until I see reason to have doubt.

[callous taoboy]

35. No doubt * is an asshole. See this vid:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2206837

[Kolesar]

23. Capitol Hill Blue is a B/S Site

I supposed it is intended as entertainment

[Skittles]

28. remember that old quote

just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean people are not out to get you

[MADem]

33. The guy who runs it was a print reporter for years and later a

staffer on the Hill during the Reagan administration.

He has friends who have moved up the ladder--I believe him.

[blue neen]

29. You know what, paineinthearse?

I believe it...every word of it. I think Bush is completely unhinged.
His behavior is completely consistent with someone who is an addict.
Addiction is caused by other underlying conditions, often bipolar disorder and other major affective disorders. His temper tantrums and rages are exactly what happens when someone DARES to question something that they say or do. You never know exactly what will set them off, but they definitely cannot take DISAPPROVAL. If they don't get proper treatment for their illness, the symptoms will only get worse.

Thanks for posting this article. I'm going to bookmark it and also recommend.

[lumpy]

37. I believe it also.

Fits right in with his persona. He has taken a lot of flack and his popularity is down the tube; one can hardly expect him to be calm and cool. He vents just like we do. Remember how people were stunned when reading the Nixon transcripts to realize Nixon even used explicatives, much less had a temper?

[yellowcanine]

34. "...I'll do whatever I goddamned please. They don't know shit."

Kind of says it all right there.