Clearing Brush Is "Hard Work"
Yesterday's revelations that the President of the United States derives his greatest pleasure from cutting down healthy trees and burning them up, gets great play from a couple of sources.
At firedoglake, Reddhead points out that President Bush has spent 20% of his presidency on vacation and much of that time clearing brush in Crawford. In a way the president's brush clearing obsession has probably kept the United States out of at least one more war.
"The Preznit has now spent around 365 days on vacation at his ranch. That's right -- The Shrub has been on the job for five years, and has spent about a year of that time clearing...well...shrubs and underbrush and cedar trees."
At Hullaballo, Digby finds this presidential obsession as possibly Bush's only means of escaping the realization that he is totally unfit for the job he currently holds. I guess, Digby is assuming that Bush is not escaping into the bottle or his old friend, cocaine.
"I see a man who is barely holding back his panic; a man who clings to his pathetic "war president" image like a talisman. He looks confused and hurt by the criticism he's receiving from people who he thought bought into the program and reportedly knows on some level that he's been duped by his advisors. He has no choice but to keep barreling along pretending that he knows what he's doing. He barks at underlings and pretends to be in charge even as he gets more and more confused. He's distanced from his father, the one person everyone thought could help guide this callow airhead if the shit came down. He trusts no one now.
So he clears brush like a madman everytime he gets the chance, hiding behind his Oakley's, blessedly unable to hear anything over the sound of chainsaws ---- maybe even the voices inside his head that remind him that he's still got three more years of this horrible responsibility he knows he cannot handle."
Is it possible that if Bush stops clearing brush and spends some time listening to those "voices inside his head" that he may conclude that he has to do something really dramatic to silence both those internal critics and the 60% of Americans who have come to understand that their President is a dangerous, delusional psychopath. That concern sometimes comes to me as a nightmare in the early morning hours. Would George W. Bush do something horrific to secure his "place in history?"
At firedoglake, Reddhead points out that President Bush has spent 20% of his presidency on vacation and much of that time clearing brush in Crawford. In a way the president's brush clearing obsession has probably kept the United States out of at least one more war.
"The Preznit has now spent around 365 days on vacation at his ranch. That's right -- The Shrub has been on the job for five years, and has spent about a year of that time clearing...well...shrubs and underbrush and cedar trees."
At Hullaballo, Digby finds this presidential obsession as possibly Bush's only means of escaping the realization that he is totally unfit for the job he currently holds. I guess, Digby is assuming that Bush is not escaping into the bottle or his old friend, cocaine.
"I see a man who is barely holding back his panic; a man who clings to his pathetic "war president" image like a talisman. He looks confused and hurt by the criticism he's receiving from people who he thought bought into the program and reportedly knows on some level that he's been duped by his advisors. He has no choice but to keep barreling along pretending that he knows what he's doing. He barks at underlings and pretends to be in charge even as he gets more and more confused. He's distanced from his father, the one person everyone thought could help guide this callow airhead if the shit came down. He trusts no one now.
So he clears brush like a madman everytime he gets the chance, hiding behind his Oakley's, blessedly unable to hear anything over the sound of chainsaws ---- maybe even the voices inside his head that remind him that he's still got three more years of this horrible responsibility he knows he cannot handle."
Is it possible that if Bush stops clearing brush and spends some time listening to those "voices inside his head" that he may conclude that he has to do something really dramatic to silence both those internal critics and the 60% of Americans who have come to understand that their President is a dangerous, delusional psychopath. That concern sometimes comes to me as a nightmare in the early morning hours. Would George W. Bush do something horrific to secure his "place in history?"
posted by RJB at 10:02 AM
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