BUSH CALLS FRIST A GOD-DAMNED TRAITOR

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Monday, August 15, 2005 12:04 PM

Bush calls Bill Frist a " god-damned traitor "

 

 

> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7218.shtml

>

> Aug 15, 2005

> Is Bush Out of Control?

> By DOUG THOMPSON

>

> Buy beleaguered, overworked White House aides enough drinks and they

> tell a sordid tale of an administration under siege, beset by bitter

> staff infighting and led by a man whose mood swings suggest paranoia

> bordering on schizophrenia.

>

> They describe a President whose public persona masks an angry,

> obscenity-spouting man who berates staff, unleashes tirades against

> those who disagree with him and ends meetings in the Oval Office

with

> " get out of here! "

>

> In fact, George W. Bush's mood swings have become so drastic that

> White House emails often contain " weather reports " to warn of the

> President's demeanor. " Calm seas " means Bush is calm while

> " tornado alert " is a warning that he is pissed at the world.

>

> Decreasing job approval ratings and increased criticism within his

own

> party drives the President's paranoia even higher. Bush, in a

meeting

> with senior advisors, called Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist a

> " god-damned traitor " for opposing him on stem-cell research.

>

> " There's real concern in the West Wing that the President is losing

> it, " a high-level aide told me recently.

>

> A year ago, this web site discovered the White House physician

> prescribed anti-depressants for Bush. The news came after

revelations

> that the President's wide mood swings led some administration

> staffers to doubt his sanity.

>

> Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush

propaganda,

> the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington

> University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the

Couch:

> Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President

as

> a " paranoid meglomaniac " and " untreated alcoholic " whose

> " lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using

> firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating

over

> state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing

of

> Baghdad " showcase Bush's instabilities.

>

> " I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching

everything

> he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I

felt

> he was disturbed, " Dr. Frank said. " He fits the profile of a former

> drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated. "

>

> Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by other prominent

> psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA

Medical

> Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford

> University Medical School.

>

> As a recovering alcoholic (sober 11 years, two months, nine days), I

> know all too well the symptoms that Dr. Frank describes and, after

> watching Bush for the past several years, I have to, unfortunately,

> agree with him.

>

> Conversations over the last few weeks with longtime friends who

work in

> the Bush White House confirm even more what Dr. Frank says and

others

> have suggested.

>

> The President of the United States is out of control. How long can

the

> ship of state continue to sail with a madman at the helm?