[lit-ideas] Re: Erratic behavior
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Andy -- I just had the same thought and told Andreas thanks for giving me
ammo <g>.
Julie Krueger
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Can I post this to Theoria?
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Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 28, 2004, 08:09
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml
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."
Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.
Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off
stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his
relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.
"Keep those motherf*****s away from me," he screamed at an aide backstage.
"If you can't, I'll find someone who can."
Bush's mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in
recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing
concern among White House aides over the President's wide mood swings and
obscene outbursts.
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.
The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant
drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted
alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and
stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for
Texas governor and his first campaign for President.
"President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac
tendencies," Dr. Frank adds.
The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.
Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior
are not known, White House sources say they are "powerful medications"
designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb
regularly releases a synopsis of the President's annual physical, details of
the President's health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not
public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that
surround the President.
Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about
Bush's health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan's
second term when aides managed to conceal the President's increasing memory
lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer's Disease.
It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon's final days when the
soon-to-resign President wondered the halls and talked to portraits of
former Presidents. The stories didn't emerge until after Nixon left office.
One long-time GOP political consultant who - for obvious reasons - asked not
to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates
to keep their distance from Bush.
"We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United
States is loony tunes," he says sadly. "That's not good for my candidates,
it's not good for the party and it's certainly not good for the country."
C Copyright 2004 by Capitol Hill Blue
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml
The June 4th story is at:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml
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