Should we have a right to know what drugs the President is on?

[techweenie]

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09

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.”

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 mother****ers 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 wandered 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 by Capitol Hill Blue

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...whatever truth there is here, the erratic behavior has been reported by several sources. That could make the debates more interesting...

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LOL

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that begins to explain a few things.

[lendaddy]

Wow tech, I don't want to hear you going of on Mull anymore. What a bunch of BS. I like how the word "diagnosed" is used, lol diagnosed from afar I guess. You have stooped my friend.

[techweenie]

This is the third article I've run across discussing GWB's mental health.

I make no apologies for posting it. I merely cut and pasted it without endorsement.

I figure it was time to counter some of the 'commies endorse Kerry' BS that's dominated the tone here for the past week.

[lendaddy]

I thought you were above that crap, but hey ya can't blame a dog for being a dog

[pwd72s]

Dunno if we have the "right" or not...any of you lefties remember Clinton's constant (and successful) refusal to release his medical records? What the hey...at least we know the tax records...sort of.

[Mulholland]

Originally posted by lendaddy
Wow tech, I don't want to hear you going of on Mull anymore. What a bunch of BS. I like how the word "diagnosed" is used, lol diagnosed from afar I guess. You have stooped my friend.

Len, come on dude, I like to substantiate my allegations with verifiable facts...For instance Roger Clinton, Clinton's half-brother, a convicted cocaine dealer, is caught on tape saying, "Gotta get some for my brother. He has a nose like a vacuum cleaner."

Roger Clinton later received a pardon for cocaine sales, as did several other inner city crack peddlers.

[lendaddy]

Mull,

I wondered how you would take that Believe me I know where you're coming from. You are alot like my father who is very passionate about his politics. That being said I will tell you the same thing I tell him. With that approach you will never convince anyone of anything. You have alot of knowledge and reasoning skills, but you waste them by being so abrasive. The idea here is to educate and sway, not slam and laugh. Now again I hope you don't take this wrong, I am not "going after you". I am just saying that with the tools you have you could do more good for the cause if you tried to convince people rather than prove them wrong. The latter is fun, the former is valuable and gratifying. To close, I know where you're coming from, and again I hope you don't take this wrong. Hell, I've been guilty of it from time to time myself.

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perhaps our fearless leader was hallucinating about the WMDs in Iraq and that's why he misled us into war.
"without a doubt" "imminent threat", blah blah blah, you know it all by now.

[lendaddy]

case in point, lol Dork

[Mulholland]

Originally posted by lendaddy
With that approach you will never convince anyone of anything. You have alot of knowledge and reasoning skills, but you waste them by being so abrasive.

Never try to teach a pig to sing, you waste your time and you annoy the pig...Better to go pig hunting...Shoot the pig between the eyes, watch it flop on the ground and hog tie it. Then break out a sharp knife and cut it into pieces, stick him in the freezer and you can then safely feed the family because your taxes are lower.


"Shhhhhh.....be vewy vewy quiet....I am hunting wiberals....hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu."

[techweenie]

Originally posted by lendaddy
I thought you were above that crap, but hey ya can't blame a dog for being a dog

Arf.

[lendaddy]

lol, both of ya. Mull, my dad would say something like that

[VenezianBlau 87]

Speculation and suspect quotes presented as facts.

No named sources...

and,

"...the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known..." With all the "apparent" specificity in her article, this stands out as sloppy.

Another sample of Teresa's writing:

"Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, the man most responsible for waging America’s war on terrorism, complains to staff that he gets very little time with the President and gets most of his marching orders lately from Ashcroft. Some on Ridge’s staff gripe privately that Ashcroft is “Bush’s Himmler,” a reference to Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the SS (the German Police) under Adolph Hitler."

What a joke.

The actual article (pre Techweenie massaging) is even more laughable.

[Mule]

The list of drugs Kennedy was on would be as thick as the 9/11 report. But he still did a good job. Should we also have a right to know what govt. employees he's bangin' behind his wife's back?

[304065]

It's entirely predictable that you would post something like this.

[slope-nz]

FWIW, I take anti-depresents,it makes for a kinder gentler me.Maybe Bush should change his meds. Randy

[Bleyseng]

The truth comes out and the right wing wacko's can stand it! ahahaa

the President is a drug addict and boozer....let's re-elect him just like Reagan who was outof his mind his 2nd term.

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Originally posted by Bleyseng
The truth comes out and the right wing wacko's can stand it! ahahaa

the President is a drug addict and boozer....let's re-elect him just like Reagan who was outof his mind his 2nd term.

weren't one of his slutty daughters arrested at some point for drinking/driving or something like that?

some traits are genetic, occasionally