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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/23/2005 : 02:22:51
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I've been saying right along that I thought Bush was still drinking, and suddenly some conformation, of sorts, has come along.
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Bush is Reportedly Drinking Again
As most of us have suspected since his fainting while watching football on TV was blamed on a pretzel in early 2002, The National Enquirer reports Bush is drinking again.
Back on Bush's 40th birthday Laura Bush supposedly gave George this ultimatum: "It's the bottle or me." It remains to be seen whether Laura stands behind what she said back then, or if she reneges the way Bill O'Reilly did on his words regarding Bush's invasion of Iraq to remove Hussein's WMD threat:
And I said on my program, if--if --the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
My guess is that Laura will give Bush a break on this the way O'Reilly has done.
*Note: As long as it doesn't lead to more drunk-driving incidents, drinking may be one of the most sensible things President Bush has done. God knows his policies have repeatedly driven the rest of us to drink!
The story first broke in the National Enquirer, a fishwrap primarly concerned with movie star scandles, but with a reputation for getting real news right, now and again -- remember the report on Limbaugh's maid scoring drugs for him? I wonder who NE's sources for this story are.
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BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS
By JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILE
Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.
Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.
Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster.
His worried wife yelled at him: "Stop, George."
Following the shocking incident, disclosed here for the first time, Laura privately warned her husband against "falling off the wagon" and vowed to travel with him more often so that she can keep an eye on Dubya, the sources add.
"When the levees broke in New Orleans, it apparently made him reach for a shot," said one insider. "He poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and shouted: "Stop George!"
"Laura gave him an ultimatum before, 'It's Jim Beam or me.' She doesn't want to replay that nightmare — especially now when it's such tough going for her husband."
I dunno; given that choice -- maybe we'd better not go there....
So, there's nothing sneakier than a 'recovering' alcoholic trying to keep others from catching him/her having a tipple, and over time, it will snowball. The article finishes up:
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Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist and author of Bush On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President, told The National Enquirer: "I do think that Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great.
"I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening."
This, if true, and I think it is, ain't good. The last thing this country needs is a president who leads in crisis from under the package store marque.
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