Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression

[Guest guest]

Well surprise..... surprise....

But, it shouldn't surprise anyone.

POP QUIZ:

Question:

When did the President's erratic behavior first begin?

Answer:

A few short weeks after having first been administered psychiatric drugs.

Prior to that he was simply depressed over his drop in the polls....

PS... Here's the URL:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

==============================================================================

Thanks to Lora for sending in the original alert

Subject: FW: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:52:44 -0600

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

By TERESA HAMPTON

Editor, Capitol Hill Blue

Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 From Capitol Hill Blue

President 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. 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 J. Lay.

" Keep those motherfuckers 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 Washington University

psychiatrist Dr. in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind

of the President. Dr. 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. said. " He fits the profile of a former drinker whose

alcoholism has been arrested but not treated. "

Dr. 's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists,

including Dr. 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. 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 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 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. "

© Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

[Guest guest]

Well surprise..... surprise....

But, it shouldn't surprise anyone.

POP QUIZ:

Question:

When did the President's erratic behavior first begin?

Answer:

A few short weeks after having first been administered psychiatric drugs.

Prior to that he was simply depressed over his drop in the polls....

PS... Here's the URL:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

==============================================================================

Thanks to Lora for sending in the original alert

Subject: FW: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:52:44 -0600

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

By TERESA HAMPTON

Editor, Capitol Hill Blue

Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 From Capitol Hill Blue

President 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. 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 J. Lay.

" Keep those motherfuckers 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 Washington University

psychiatrist Dr. in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind

of the President. Dr. 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. said. " He fits the profile of a former drinker whose

alcoholism has been arrested but not treated. "

Dr. 's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists,

including Dr. 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. 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 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 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. "

© Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

[Guest guest]

Well surprise..... surprise....

But, it shouldn't surprise anyone.

POP QUIZ:

Question:

When did the President's erratic behavior first begin?

Answer:

A few short weeks after having first been administered psychiatric drugs.

Prior to that he was simply depressed over his drop in the polls....

PS... Here's the URL:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

==============================================================================

Thanks to Lora for sending in the original alert

Subject: FW: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:52:44 -0600

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

By TERESA HAMPTON

Editor, Capitol Hill Blue

Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 From Capitol Hill Blue

President 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. 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 J. Lay.

" Keep those motherfuckers 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 Washington University

psychiatrist Dr. in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind

of the President. Dr. 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. said. " He fits the profile of a former drinker whose

alcoholism has been arrested but not treated. "

Dr. 's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists,

including Dr. 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. 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 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 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. "

© Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

[Guest guest]

Well surprise..... surprise....

But, it shouldn't surprise anyone.

POP QUIZ:

Question:

When did the President's erratic behavior first begin?

Answer:

A few short weeks after having first been administered psychiatric drugs.

Prior to that he was simply depressed over his drop in the polls....

PS... Here's the URL:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

==============================================================================

Thanks to Lora for sending in the original alert

Subject: FW: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:52:44 -0600

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

By TERESA HAMPTON

Editor, Capitol Hill Blue

Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 From Capitol Hill Blue

President 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. 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 J. Lay.

" Keep those motherfuckers 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 Washington University

psychiatrist Dr. in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind

of the President. Dr. 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. said. " He fits the profile of a former drinker whose

alcoholism has been arrested but not treated. "

Dr. 's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists,

including Dr. 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. 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 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 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. "

© Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue