IS BUSH CERTIFIABLY INSANE? OR IS HE JUST ACTING THAT WAY?

We keep hearing that Bush has slid off the deep end into never-neverland. Maybe he's drinking again; he's a "dry drunk;" he's back snorting cocaine; he's screaming at everyone who works for him; he refuses to talk to anyone but his mother and 3 mamma substitutes... and so on. But does anyone know for sure?

Well, yesterday CAPITOL HILL BLUE ran a story by Doug Thompson which, if true, would call for consideration of the presidential incapacity amendment to be dusted off and looked at closely. According to attendees, there was a meeting in the Oval Office between Bush and Republican congressional leaders about renewing the inappropriately named Patriot Act. With both progressives and conservatives inside and outside the Beltway opposing many of the most authoritarian provisions, some of the Republicans leaders tried to explain to Bush that pushing for this too hard would alienate some of his far right base.

“I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

Thompson claims that 3 attendees personally told him Bush called the Constitution of the United States (of America) "a goddamned piece of paper." Perhaps he picked that way of thinking up from our illustrious Attorney General, who had referred to it as "an outdated document" when he was White House Counsel. Or maybe he's just an ignoramus who doesn't know any better. Or maybe he had a rough day and new polling numbers came out and he was on edge. Could have been. Or maybe he's stark raving mad.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: BUSH IS INDEED INSANE

It appears that the mainstream media is finally starting to catch on to Bush's severe mental disability. NEWSWEEK'S cover story about the "boy in the bubble" isn't about Michael Jackson but the far more dangerously out of touch George W Bush. He told NBC's Brian Williams that his cold, vicious mother can get through the bubble. "If I'm in a bubble," the clod said on the NBC Nightly News, "well, if there is such thing as a bubble, she's the one who can penetrate it." I'm comforted... but Newsweek is troubled. They searched for answers in places not so obscure or foolish - the Freudian tensions between Bush the younger and his father, Bush the failure all his life who is now suddenly frightened and insecure as reality presses in. David McReynold's piece about it-- under the above link "severe mental disability"-- is well worth reading.