"The President is just unhappy in general"

by **nomo** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:29 pm

Bushies feeling the boss' wrath BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Monday, October 24th, 2005 <a href="http://nydailynews.com/front/story/358714p-305660c.html">nydailynews.com/front/sto...5660c.html</a> WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq, the White House is bracing for the political fallout from a grim milestone that could come any day: the combat death of the 2,000th American G.I. Last week alone, 23 military personnel were killed in Iraq, and five were wounded yesterday in a relentless series of attacks across the country. This week could also bring a special prosecutor's decision that could shake the foundations of the Bush government. The President's top political guru, Karl Rove, and Vice President Cheney's right-hand man, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, are at the center of a two-year criminal probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Many Bush staffers believe indictments are likely. "He's like the lion in winter," observed a political friend of Bush. "He's frustrated. He remains quite confident in the decisions he has made. But this is a guy who wanted to do big things in a second term. Given his nature, there's no way he'd be happy about the way things have gone." Bush usually reserves his celebrated temper for senior aides because he knows they can take it. Lately, however, some junior staffers have also faced the boss' wrath. "This is not some manager at McDonald's chewing out the help," said a source with close ties to the White House when told about these outbursts. "This is the President of the United States, and it's not a pleasant sight." The specter of losing Rove, his only truly irreplaceable assistant, lies at the heart of Bush's distress. But a string of political reversals, including growing opposition to the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and Harriet Miers' bungled Supreme Court nomination, have also exacted a personal toll. Presidential advisers and friends say Bush is a mass of contradictions: cheerful and serene, peevish and melancholy, occasionally lapsing into what he once derided as the "blame game." They describe him as beset but unbowed, convinced that history will vindicate the major decisions of his presidency even if they damage him and his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections. At the same time, these sources say Bush, who has a long history of keeping staffers in their place, has lashed out at aides as his political woes have mounted. "The President is just unhappy in general and casting blame all about," said one Bush insider. "Andy [Card, the chief of staff] gets his share. Karl gets his share. Even Cheney gets his share. And the press gets a big share." The vice president remains Bush's most trusted political confidant. Even so, the Daily News has learned Bush has told associates Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues in the runup to the Iraq war that have been seized on by Bush critics. Bush is so dismayed that "the only person escaping blame is the President himself," said a sympathetic official, who delicately termed such self-exoneration "illogical." A second senior Bush loyalist disagreed, saying Bush knows "some of these things are self-inflicted," like the Miers nomination, where Bush jettisoned contrary advice from his advisers and appointed his longtime personal lawyer. "He must know that the way he did that, relying on his own judgment and instinct, was not good," another key adviser said. Despite the turmoil, Bush is determined to soldier on, already preparing for two major overseas trips in November and helping shape next year's legislative agenda. "I've got a job to do," he told reporters last week. "The American people expect me to do my job, and I'm going to." -- When all else fails... panic.

by **Jen** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:00 pm

Two things stuck out to me from within that piece: 1) he's bitching out Cheney? and 2) he's decided to "soldier on"? Good luck with that, George, especially if Cheney has to resign. Soldiering on...to where? Good Lord. Denial, much? You'd think his advisors would be able to talk some sense and reason into him about what's coming.

by **michael meiring** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:50 pm

I cant believe anyonr eads that waffle, there again i just have, hehe. I believe a more accurate description is here. Millions finally waking up to the lying and deciet of he ''voices in the head, god told me to do it madman'', g w bush. After starting a war on lies and forged documents and massaged intellegence reports, who can now doubt the psychopathic tendencies of this proven pathological liar? As more and more iraqis join the freedom fighters to rid them them of a barbaric, torturing as routine occupational force. The tip of a gigantic indicements scandel is about to bear fruition. He's like a shrub in the Sahara desert. If you are not with him, then you are a terrorist. There is a long line of people who end up dead, from maids to iraqis to afghanistan wedding parties. Everybodies to blame except bush, ''god told me to do it and i did it'' he keeps saying, after flashing the ol ''texas longhorns'' salute. Despite the anomalies in his, the arabs did 9/11 conspiracy theories, outright lies to start wars in iraq and afghanistan, and the mystifying 'suicides' surrounding his critics, bush assures us all he will carry on as usual, promising to cut budgets for non essential services likes hospitals, schools etc, and raise taxes for his upcoming new wars of terror he is about to unleash on Iran, syria and a couple more to be confirmed as soon as he hears 'THE VOICE' again. He reaffirms his stance, that when a major terrorist event happens, just before the indicments verdict, that he will assume a national state of emergency and make sure the suitcase noooookular bomb wont be allowed to happen again, by microchipping the whole population.

by **marykmusic** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:58 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Millions finally waking up to the lying and deciet of he ''voices in the head, god told me to do it madman'', g w bush.<hr></blockquote> MainStream Media reported last night, all bold and upfront on Phoenix's Channel 12 News, that two-thirds of Americans feel our country is going the wrong direction. Waking up is hard to do, but by golly it CAN be done. --MaryK

by **banned** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:06 am

As I read this, I felt so bad for Bush. NOT. As for his legacy, history's long view of him: Worst.President.Ever. A stupid, rigid, querulous, spoiled little fuck who should be working at the local convenience store, bumming smokes from co-workers, boozing from the time he buys a roadie to walk home to his trailer till he stumbles in late the next afternoon hung over. A NOTHING, had he not been born into the Bush Dynasty. And for most of his life his father KNEW he had a NOTHING on his hands and did nothing with him. Big Dick Cheney and the neo-cons grabbed onto him because he would do anything whoever had their hand up his ass wanted him to, if they kept him in cocaine and pretzels. There has been no figure in politics in my lifetime for whom I have had such contempt and whom I believe deserves so richly to be impeached for treason. If you threw Dick Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Mayor Daley the elder, Strom Thurmond, and Tom DeLay in a blender, the cocktail you would pour out would still not be as noxious as Gee Dubbaya Busch.

by **Homeless Halo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:59 am

At least we don't have to worry about his daughters' political aspirations. They both appear to be somewhat lacking in the "ambition" department (not to mention the "intelligence" department), and I doubt we'll see them again once this is over.

by **banned** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:06 am

...while Jenna does a mean butt dance. Nuf said.

"The President is just unhappy in general"

"The President is just unhappy in general"

psycho

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Awwww.....

good god

Barbara's supposed to be 'brainy'...

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