Bush Becomes Nixon

Posted on November 5, 2005 by Chris Mitchell

An article from Capitol Hill Blue describes how Bush is losing it under pressure - there are fears that the President's mental health is detoriating, that's he's on anti-depressants and hitting the bottle again. He's also doing a lot of shouting and screaming at his staff...It sounds almost verbatim as Hunter S. Thompson continually described Nixon - paranoid raving in the White House...

The Bush presidency's troubles are no call for celebration though. As Momus points out in his typically erudite way:

But before we throw a schadenfreude party, let's note that these are not attacks on Bush from the left. They do not signal a change in the national mood which will automatically see Hillary Clinton swept to power in 2008. Bush's setbacks come from the right. Out goes Miers, suspected by the right wing of the Republican party of moderately liberal views, in comes Alito, a conservative. Even Berlusconi's "betrayal" is in the interest of strengthening the right wing — in the form of his own continued rule at home in Italy....while it's great to see the first signs that that regime may be disintegrating, the fact that it seems to be splitting into two factions, and that the dominant faction is even further right than Bush sends a chill wind right through me. Let's keep the celebrations on hold; we don't yet know that something even worse isn't on the way.