For my life.

This version of the story agrees largely with the anonymous version, seems like.

"I am the President." Accurate enough, as far as it goes. More accurate, perhaps "I am an idiot."

We never should have let the right-wing genie get out of the GOP bag. I sometimes think this all started with the GOP FCC eliminating the Fairness Doctrine back in the 1980s. The GOP knew it couldn't actually run on its agenda, so it just made sure there was no rational counter-argument in the places that would have counted.

And now we have to get the genie back in the bottle. Somehow.

Funny how things come around. He refused to listen to others, now they refuse to listen to him. This duck gets lamer every day.

Enough pressure and maybe bush will crack the rest of the way.

With many Presidents, we often find that they are in much worse condition than we ever knew while they were in office. For example, Kennedy was very sick and on a constant supply of drugs. Rehnquist was in similar shape. Reagan was getting his first symptons of Alzheimer's.

What are we gonna find out about the Decider in 20 years?

None of the three versions of the story is reassuring. I wish his doctor would get him a psych eval for this megalomania he seems to have.

What are our options if the President is CRAZY?

That's enough to make you pray for Bush's health and safety.

No surprise that he's cracking. He's done a lot of stuff he can't take back. Daddy can't fix it, for once. It's sort of sad, if it weren't so terrifying.

"he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of 'our country's destiny'"

And did he mention anything about the purity of our precious bodily fluids?

We may not have to put the genie back in the bottle. It may die like the aliens in War of the World.

Years ago when "conservative" became cool with the rise of Limbaugh and such, people found it entertaining and alarming. Its gotten progressively mean-spirited, threatening and sophocating over the years. The country is a mess, a profound mess, because the right has been able to ride rough-shod.

I think people are getting weary of it. Its negative and destructive, and its morally exhausting. Limabaugh, Hannity and Coulter are still shrieking away, but who's getting the attention now? Jon Stewart, Colbert, Bill Maher...we're seeing a shift.

George Bush has been such a complete failure and disaster that a repeat won't be attractive to many people by the time he slinks away.

zippity doo dah, dudes.

I've always taken a "pragmatic" view of the subject. However, we may be forced into it by this lunatic. Or tell me, what's the way to invoke the 25th amendment? Or maybe, some carom shot that would take out the Veep with the eventual Fitzgerald charges, and then pop the 25th Amendment on him? Send in the guys in the white coats?

Seriously. I sent birthday greetings to an old friend last week, and left on a vaguely anti-Bush tag line on the e-mail. Well, I might as well have peed in the face of an archangel. Dispiriting when an old friend exhibits crazed behavior. Imagine when the Decider does the same.

The anti-Bush movements have been too meek. He's not stupid, he's crazy.

In a different thread, you suggested I could only show responsibility (for voting for bush) by voting dem next time.

That is silly.

What if the dems drink the "electablility" kool-aid again and put a train wreck like clinton on the ticket? The thugs would have to really dig deep in their collective colon to find a worse candidate than that. Hell, I'd even take another 4 years of bush because he's becoming more harmless by the day, because his inner circle is shredding, because the crimes are getting exposed, and because he can't give himself a presidential pardon.

When will the dems own up to their share of the blame? Dean has purpose, vision, and passion. He'd have pulled voters like me over. He might have won. Instead, y'all perched up kerry. Another yale skull 'n bonesman. swell

I agree that Gore would have been better. He's probably better than any of the running candidates. In voted for Nader. As part of the clinton administration, I figured Gore would continue the erosion of our civil rights. bush, of course, is a coke addicted jesus freak who shat on the constitution far more prolifically than clinton ever did. Who saw that coming? If it weren't for 9/11, he'd still be trying to sound out "my pet goat".

Also consider that the dems are doing everything in their power to lose again. Failing to defund the occupation is about the same as voting to support the war AGAIN. That makes 'em little better than the psychopath in the oval office.

Impeach him.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

The recountings of these "big" Texans with Bush, remind me of Kurosawa's great film Rashomon. How else to explain the significantly different accounts of what exactly Bush said and did?

In any case, all three accounts are deeply unsettling. Bush has always been shielded from the reality of the world and his effects upon it by his "bubble" of advisors and sycophants. Now it appears that the small amount of criticism that does get through reveals him to be unmoored as well as out of touch.

Hell, I'd even take another 4 years of bush

Yeah! 'cause if you can't have perfection, why not take the worst! Better isn't good enough, lets pick something that'll at least let us complain another 4 years! Heck, if we can't find the perfect Democrat, another FDR, lets elect Cheney!

...Fred Thompson should offer his advice about Michael Moore checking into a mental institution to George Bush. The man is an idiot, a fascist, and an asshole.