"someone at his core consumed by fear, anger and self-hate" aka GW Bush [View All]

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George Bush in his fifties is the George Bush of his twenties, simply minus the alcohol. His actions make this transparent. There is no evident maturity. Change, adaptation, evolution is not possible for him because he views such as weakness, as wrong and therefore failure, instead of as a positive development. Such is not the light in which George Bush can ever view himself, let alone allow himself to be seen. Nakedness is a vulnerability he will not assume. All is black and white, win or lose for him. Fear and self-hate trumping common sense.

The only hope for any sort of a George Bush personal renaissance is someone or something leveraging him into modification or reformation. But remember, even Laura Bush was able to achieve but a cessation of drinking. Can a Democratic House of Representatives, with congressional subpoena power (a big November, 2006 assumption) force more? That's more than likely the only hope.

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As with #1 above concerning George Bush, can Karl Rove be 'forced' into personal rehabilitation? A kinder, gentler Rove? It's unlikely, at least not until all avenues of escape have been explored and attempted. And even then, he'll sell out anyone he can in an attempt to escape personal penalty. It appears he is already doing so in the Fitzgerald/Plame investigation.

But he isn't interested in ever playing 'nice'--there's no element of satisfying revenge or personal redemption in that. He'll do it as long as no alternative is available, as long as a prison cell looms in his future or else.

More at the link to Cogitator's David Gergen badly miscalculates the damaged characters of Bush and Rove:

http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/node/29158

I agree.

As Lawrence Wilkerson noted yesterday:

"In January 2001, with the inauguration of George W. Bush as president, America set on a path to cease being good; America became a revolutionary nation, a radical republic. If our country continues on this path, it will cease to be great -- as happened to all great powers before it, without exception.

From the Kyoto accords to the International Criminal Court, from torture and cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners to rendition of innocent civilians, from illegal domestic surveillance to lies about leaking, from energy ineptitude to denial of global warming, from cherry-picking intelligence to appointing a martinet and a tyrant to run the Defense Department, the Bush administration, in the name of fighting terrorism, has put America on the radical path to ruin.

Unprecedented interpretations of the Constitution that holds the president as commander in chief to be all-powerful and without checks and balances marks the hubris and unparalleled radicalism of this administration.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.radical23apr23,0,7907127.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

Bush and Rove are armed and dangerous criminals. It is time for everyone to approach them accordingly.

A Cornered Administration: Dangerous Times Ahead

By DAVE LINDORFF

The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members of Congress don't have the courage or conviction to do so themselves.

These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.

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The only way to defeat this threat is to warn about it and resist it openly now.

Link:

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04242006.html

Turn up the volume and be persistent, everyone. Humanity is in the balance, not just America.


Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq.