{"id":1275,"date":"2004-08-03T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T23:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-is-nixon\/"},"modified":"2004-08-03T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T23:08:36","slug":"bush-is-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush is Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/artman\/publish\/article_4930.shtml\">Capitol Hill Blue: Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World<\/a> By TERESA HAMPTON &amp; WILLIAM D. McTAVISH, Capitol Hill Blue Staff<br \/>\nJul 29, 2004, 09:08<\/p>\n<p>A sullen President George W. Bush is withdrawing more and more from aides and senior staff, retreating into a private, paranoid world where only the ardent loyalists are welcome. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush\u2019s erratic behavior and sharp mood swings led White House physician Col. Richard J. Tubb to put the President on powerful anti-depressant drugs after he stormed off stage rather than answer reporters&#8217; questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay, but White House insiders say the strong, prescription medications seem to increase Bush\u2019s sullen behavior towards those around him. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Among cabinet members, only Attorney General John Ashcroft, a fundamentalist who shares many of Bush\u2019s strict religious convictions, remains part of the inner circle. White House aides call Bush and Ashcroft the \u201cBlue Brothers\u201d because, like the mythical movie characters, \u201cboth believe they are on a mission from God.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo many make the mistake of thinking Dick Cheney is the real power in the Bush administration,\u201d says one senior Homeland Security aide. \u201cThey\u2019re wrong. It\u2019s Ashcroft and that is reason enough for all of us to be very, very afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to Bruce H. mjh]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Hill Blue: Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World By TERESA HAMPTON &amp; WILLIAM D. McTAVISH, Capitol Hill Blue Staff Jul 29, 2004, 09:08 A sullen President George W. Bush is withdrawing more and more from aides and senior staff, retreating into a private, paranoid world where only the ardent loyalists are welcome. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-nixon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush is Nixon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}