Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

[Beaverhausen]

Didn't see this posted yet. sorry if it's old news.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09

President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”

Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.
Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

More at the link

[gmoney]

1. It's been posted, but...

I don't get tired of reading it... especially the new "Keep those motherfuckers away from me" line... classic!

And they corrected Ken Lay's name, which is nice.

[Beaverhausen]

3. well dang...where have I been?

don't know how I missed it.

[stevedeshazer]

2. Jeezus

From the article:

"One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious reasons – asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.

“We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”

[knight_of_the_star]

14. He said looney tunes?

Wow, he must be REALLY off the deep end if a puke is willing to admit that.

[indigobusiness]

4. Who can tire of this?....here's more

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=65129&mesg_id=65129


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2110824


Among cabinet members, only Attorney General John Ashcroft, a fundamentalist who shares many of Bush’s strict religious convictions, remains part of the inner circle. White House aides call Bush and Ashcroft the “Blue Brothers” because, like the mythical movie characters, “both believe they are on a mission from God.”

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, the man most responsible for waging America’s war on terrorism, complains to staff that he gets very little time with the President and gets most of his marching orders lately from Ashcroft. Some on Ridge’s staff gripe privately that Ashcroft is “Bush’s Himmler,” a reference to Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the SS (the German Police) under Adolph Hitler.

“Too many make the mistake of thinking Dick Cheney is the real power in the Bush administration,” says one senior Homeland Security aide. “They’re wrong. It’s Ashcroft and that is reason enough for all of us to be very, very afraid.”

[tcfrogs]

5. Just asking

but how reliable/what kind of website is capitolhillblue.com? I'm not familiar with it.

[Wonk]

6. Right up there with Weekly World News and The Onion

[tcfrogs]

7. That reliable, huh?

Seems like some around here are quoting that story as the gospel already.

[Beaverhausen]

8. well, Bush's behavior itself would seem to give it validity

I had just been sent the story and link from a friend - that's why I posted it.

[tcfrogs]

9. I'm not trying to be critical of you or anyone posting it

I just have a healthy skepticism about web-sites I'm not familiar with. And, there are plenty out there that I'm not. Hence, why I asked the question.

[indigobusiness]

10. Sources like this often break the touchiest, well guarded stories

But, healthy skepticism is always warranted.

There are enough names cited in this to nail it down.

[Beaverhausen]

11. No that's cool. I wasn't sure myself

but I went to the site and it looked OK. Like any other liberal site posting the stuff that is true yet unbelieveable to those of us with half a brain remaining!

[Wonk]

12. From their FAQ

Can I write something for Capitol Hill Blue?
Good question. Can you? Blue welcomes submissions with the understanding that we may read it, we may just laugh at it, or we may toss it in the bytebox so that it never darkens our hard drive again. If we do use it, we'll pay you what everybody else gets around here: nada. Just send it to [e-mail] and take your chances.

Don't you take anything seriously?
Nah, we leave that to the politicians (and some of our readers). They take everything, including themselves, far too seriously.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/faq.asp

[Arugula Latte]

13. Beaverhausen -- I LOVE your screen name

Anastasia, I presume?