{"id":548,"date":"2005-09-24T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/24\/bush-back-on-the-bottle\/"},"modified":"2005-09-24T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T04:01:09","slug":"bush-back-on-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/24\/bush-back-on-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Back on the Bottle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7107'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bushitfaced.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\">Faced<br \/>\n        with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit<br \/>\n        the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>      Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has<br \/>\n      started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A Washington source said: &quot;The sad fact is that<br \/>\n        he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught<br \/>\n        him &#8211; but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the<br \/>\n      capital. He&#8217;s been in a pressure cooker for months.      <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/celebrity\/63426\">the<br \/>\n          National Enquirer<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Finally, some good news out of the White House!<br \/>\n          George has needed to get out of the damn light for twenty years now,<br \/>\n          and having<br \/>\n        him rediscover the dark side of American politics at this stage of the<br \/>\n        game is about the only hope we have of being saved from the Holy Rollers<br \/>\n        and Radical Evangelicals. Perhaps he&#8217;ll start channeling Richard Nixon<br \/>\n        or John Kennedy, who could reportedly drink like house painters.&nbsp;Hell,<br \/>\n        even Ronnie Reagan liked a beer or a bottle of California red, at least<br \/>\n        until Nancy cut him off for good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We are sure the White House physicians could write<br \/>\n          George something for the stress. We hear der Furher&#8217;s personal physician<br \/>\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Morell\">Theo<br \/>\n        Morell<\/a> had quite a bit of success with a combination of morphine, pharmaceutical<br \/>\n        cocaine and methamphetamine, and that Merck still has the formula. It<br \/>\n        worked for old Adolf, and there was a guy who knew what stress was all<br \/>\n        about!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>With that, and a bit of female companionship to<br \/>\n          help him relax after a hard half-day at the office, our fearless leader<br \/>\n          might<br \/>\n        attain more human dimensions, and really get in touch with the silent<br \/>\n        majority of the people he reputedly represents. We are a nation of addicts<br \/>\n        &#8211; drunkards and druggies, sex fiends and adrenaline junkies, gambling<br \/>\n        addicts and fitness fanatics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>It&#8217;s about time we had a President we can relate to.<br \/>\n        It was getting stale having a Saint in the Oval Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/24\/bush-back-on-the-bottle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}