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Inside Bush's brain

Wash. Post:

President Bush finds the world around him increasingly "unacceptable."

In speeches, statements and news conferences this year, the president has repeatedly declared a range of problems "unacceptable," including rising health costs, immigrants who live outside the law, North Korea's claimed nuclear test, genocide in Sudan and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Bush's decision to lay down blunt new markers about the things he deems intolerable comes at an odd time, a phase of his presidency in which all manner of circumstances are not bending to his will: national security setbacks in North Korea and Iraq, a Congress that has shrugged its shoulders at his top domestic initiatives, a favorability rating mired below 40 percent.

But a survey of transcripts from Bush's public remarks over the past seven years shows the president's worsening political predicament has actually stoked, rather than diminished, his desire to proclaim what he cannot abide. Some presidential scholars and psychologists describe the trend as a signpost of Bush's rising frustration with his declining influence.

 

Comments

Speaking of Bush using "unacceptable" a lot, the Daily Show did a piece recently on Bush's many uses of "my job is". He likes that phrase too.

I think Bush's influence has declined must faster than that of the average lame duck. It should have been faster still, but the Republicans in Congress have only recently started to take issue with him on some points. About time.

I noticed the ads here for "Eng Lending...a division of the Bank of England".

Reminds me of all the "Bank of Scotland" ads I've been seeing on TV lately. I'm surprised the US banking lobby allowed whatever change in banking laws has allowed this infusion of foreign competition.

And it was British Petroleum who didn't do proper maintenance on the Alaska oil pipeline.

Dirty Brits are taking over. I'm sure DonKey doesn't like it one bit. I'm a little suspicious myself.

Ummm, Spirit? Even though it may look and feel like a different country, those ads are for a bank based in England, Arkansas.

That's England, AR...

What brain?

I have a 9 year old dog that has never been very smart. Like Bush too much input confuses the dog. If you startle him his first instinct is to bite. Bush wants to bite anyone who doesn't agree with his child-like, black and white view of the world.

Of course it doesn't really matter because Bush is not in control of anything. I'm sure he still has that square receiver duct taped between his shoulder blades. What Bush thinks doesn't matter, it what the people on the other end of that radio receiver thinks, that matters.

Unfortunately Bush's handlers are far more evil than they are intelligent. Look at the war for oil in Iraq. Look at Katrina. Rove is the only intelligent person in the White House. But one smart man cannot take on the world, look what happened to Jesus.

So as things get worse, Rove's head spins more and up comes gallons of split pea soup to the point where even Rove's thinking is falling apart. Without Rove Cheney's pure evil will come pouring out burning every building near DC to the ground. Cheney is not someone we want near the big red firing button. If anyone is Dr. Strangelove, it's Cheney.

Bush will do fine in prison, the rest of them won't. Rummy and Cheney will squirm and die as soon as the cuffs go on. Rove will finally get his sexual cravings met in prison. The fun one to watch will be Condi. Imagine what the sisters will do to her when she's wearing stripes!

I never dreamed I'd live to see such a day and I can't say it brings me any pleasure or pride. But we were bound to have a stinker pop up after 200 years of pretty good luck. Now it's time to put them away and restore our country to greatness.

"Ummm, Spirit? Even though it
may look and feel like a different country, those ads
are for a bank based in
England, Arkansas.
Posted by: Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"

Ummm, I still stand by my statement that it reminded me of the Bank of Scotland ads, the foreign banking competition, and the British Petroleum sins in Alaska.

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