{"id":5092,"date":"2005-08-27T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5092.html"},"modified":"2005-08-27T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T13:21:04","slug":"when-the-bubble-bursts-bush-unplugged-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-the-bubble-bursts-bush-unplugged-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Bubble Bursts  &#8230;  Bush Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ac.wwu.edu\/~stephan\">Ed Stephan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doug Thompson, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/artman\/publish\/article_7267.shtml\">Capitol Hill Blue<\/a>, has a wonderful piece on some of Bush&#8217;s reactions to recent anti-war demonstrators.  It&#8217;s very funny to read.  Here are a few paragraphs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,\u201d Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. \u201cShe can go to hell as far as I\u2019m concerned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them \u201cmotherfucking traitors.\u201d He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/artman\/uploads\/bush_slc104_08-23-2005_hh4aoci.jpg\">bullshit protectors<\/a>\u201d over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to \u201ctell those VFW assholes that I\u2019ll never speak to them again is they can\u2019t keep their members under control.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/artman\/uploads\/082505bush.jpg\">picture<\/a> of him flipping the bird, with the caption, &#8220;Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been doing since his days as governor of Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Near that is another item:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWho gives a flying fuck what the polls say,\u201d he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. \u201cI\u2019m the President and I\u2019ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don\u2019t know shit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d suggest Lord Acton&#8217;s &#8220;Power corrupts&#8221; bit, but I think this may be more personal psychology (spoiled brat with damaged brain, in over his head) than structural effect (and anyway, Cheney&#8217;s the one with the power).  Take a look.  The guy&#8217;s really going whacko.   I guess that&#8217;s what happens when the bubble bursts.  It should make a great TV movie someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Ed Stephan Doug Thompson, over at Capitol Hill Blue, has a wonderful piece on some of Bush&#8217;s reactions to recent anti-war demonstrators. It&#8217;s very funny to read. Here are a few paragraphs: \u201cI\u2019m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,\u201d Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}