Tell Us Something We Don't Know

This blog has joked a few times before that the President is not man, but cyborg, or that his wild youth had permanently impaired him. The latter probably is true.

But it's been apparent for quite some time that the man is highly medicated. One need simply look at any picture of him, or listen to him speak. Capitol Hill Blue has now "learned" what has long been obvious for anybody with eyes to see:

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."

But of course, if Dick Cheney is truly running the country, there's no reason to believe that he wants a President who is "alert mentally".

The remainder of the Capitol Hill Blue piece is pretty entertaining as well. A university pyschiatrist, Dr. Frank, has judged the President a "disturbed" "paranoid megalomaniac", while an anonymous GOP political consultant warns that, "We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is looney tunes."

So there are your poster-boys for the Republican Party: George W. Bush and Rush Limbaugh, a couple of sanctimonious, hypocritical, junkie crackers. You can see why bin Laden is just quaking in his boots, can't you?

Begging the question, who to vote for come November? As the Democrats trot out three (count 'em) war criminals to speak at their party convention's closing night (Wesley Clark, Madeleine "We think the price is worth it" Albright, and John Kerry hisself), and as Dennis Kucinich has sold out the peace movement, there's no reason to suppose that the Democrats will consider de-militarisation any time soon.

Neither would the Republicans, by choice. But with the walls closing in on Bush's mind, with DeLay on the ropes, with Rumsfeld having been swept under the rug, with Powell an outed liar, with Cheney being hounded for his Halliburton ties (and prone to outbursts of his own), that could sooner than later leave only Condi and Ashcroft minding the store. But with the military in near open revolt at the Administration's imperial overstretch -- and at taking it in the shorts care of the Iraqi Resistance, when Ashcroft issues the orders for martial law, he's likely to find the guns turned on him. Meanwhile, "Doctor" Rice's logical faculties are hardly any better that Bush's.

So who would step into the vacuum created by the Republican melt-down, which is drawing closer by the week? Why not the Peace and Justice movement?

But first we've got to do our duty, and re-elect the Cyborg.

Posted by Eddie Tews at July 29, 2004 04:56 PM