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Steve Gilliard points us to an article wondering how Gee-Dubya is coping with the stress of turning everything he touches into great steaming piles of shite. 

Bush-Watchers Wonder How He Copes With Stress

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: December 25, 2006

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 — President Bush marched into his year-end news conference last week with the usual zip in his step. As always, he professed little worry about his legacy or the polls. As always, he said the United States would win in Iraq. The nation might despair, but not Mr. Bush; his presidential armor seemed firmly intact.

Yet a longtime friend of Mr. Bush’s recently spotted a tiny crack in that armor. “He looked tired, for the first time, which I hadn’t seen before,” this friend said.

Mr. Bush has never been one for introspection, in public or in private. But the questions of how the president is coping, and whether his public pronouncements match what he feels as he searches for a new strategy in Iraq, have been much on the minds of Bush-watchers these days.

You know, the disconnect between what's actually going on and the way reporters write about it is starting to give me something akin to motion-sickness.  It's like they're trying to subdue an angry alligator with a whiffle-ball bat.  These words "never been one for introspection" are simply not the right tools for the job.  How about, "The brain-dead sociopathic dickhead who is our President never thinks at all, never has, and appears to have no plans to begin doing so any time in the near future."

In fact, let's rewrite Ms Stolberg's first couple of paragraphs to more accurately reflect the situation on the ground in Washington:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 - President Bush swaggered into his year-end festival of condescension and obfuscation with his usual air of defiant arrogance.  As always, he blew smoke up his own ass and compared himself to historical figures whose names he only knows because they were handed to him moments before he walked into the room.  As always, he greased his pole for the crowd while displaying a breathtaking ignorance of world events and denied all responsibility for the catastrophic mistakes of his flawed and deeply ideological reign.  His stupidity and moral vacuity continue to enable him to live in a virtual coma of denial.

Yet a hand-picked anonymous source (*cough* Peggy Noonan! *cough*) was sent to us to attempt to drum up a bit of sympathy for the Dickhead in Chief, "He looked tired, for the first time, which I hadn't seen before," Ms Noonan said.

Mr. Bush never thinks unless physically forced.  But out here in Beltway Woof-Woof Land, we're wondering how much longer it will be before his painstakingly forged shell of ignorance cracks, and whether his current state of mind is the result of denial, delusion, or just plain old dumb-assedness.

Says Gilliard:

I was watching this White House Christmas special last night, and after a couple of minutes, I realized that people would have their Christmases killed by two guys in uniform showing up to tell them their kin was dead.

I became so agigated I had to change the channel.

Indeed.  The people who are making the important decisions right now seem to feel no sense of urgency, no need for prompt action.  We have arrived at an unprecedented state of affairs in US history.  But you know, for the rich boy from Connecticut by way of Texas, it will all wait until after his bike ride and afternoon nap.

Can the president really believe, as he said on Wednesday, that “victory in Iraq is achievable,” when a bipartisan commission led by his own father’s secretary of state calls the situation there “grave and deteriorating?” Is he truly content to ignore public opinion and let “the long march of history,” as he calls it, pass judgment on him after he is gone? Does he lie awake at night, as President Lyndon B. Johnson did during the Vietnam War, fretting over his decisions?

Mr. Bush addressed the sleep issue in a recent interview with People magazine, saying, “I’m sleeping a lot better than people would assume.”

That's because you are thoroughly divorced from the consequences of your actions, Preznint American Psycho.  You are living in a completely different world than the population of Planet Earth.  Your advisors protect and coddle you, the media kowtows to you, and apparently, you are just stupid enough to believe your own hype.

God help us all. 

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