This is a common alliance in alcoholic families. We know bush is an alcoholic per admissions about his life. The two of them made a perfect duo if that disease is running things as I suspect. Cheney took care of business for the alcoholic bush and manipulated things from behind the scenes. My guess is that the closest around them knew bush was “impaired” and that Cheney covered. This would fit in to the childhood pattern. It feeds the grandiosity and passive aggressive patterns toward bush the president and technical boss.

The disease of alcoholism has certain tell tale symptoms:

1) secrets
2) the need for controlling external events; authoritarianism
3) denial and scape goating
4) extreme fear and paranoia

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Cheney had a dad or mom who liked to drink to excess. Enough that he had to “be the man” behind the scenes at an early age. (maybe the cause could have been depression or some other mental illness, but because bush himself has clear and admitted issues in regard to alcohol dependence, my gut says that alcoholism would be the culprit).

This is all supposition…theoretical…but having done tons of work with alcoholic families…the bush presidency sure seems to operate like one large alcoholic clan. And in my humble opinion our 2nd and third “estate” in the checks and balances operated just like the members of an alcoholic family. Congress became fearful of retribution so instead of setting clear boundaries enabled the alcoholic. Everyone participated in some denial. Triangulating occurred and no one confronted the elephant in the room for fear of retribution.

This is what happens in alcoholic families all over America. And if we view this country as one big alcoholic family, the country needs recovery.

1)admitted we were powerless (over controlling bushco, alcoholics, and drug addicts).

2) came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (the constitution)

3) turned our will and lives over to the care of a loving constitution

4) did a searching and fearless moral inventory

5) Admitted to ourselves, the constitution, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (substitute another country for human being).

6) became ready to ask the constitution to remove all our defects of character.

7) Asked god to remove all our defects of character.

made a list of all we had harmed.

9) made amends to all we had harmed.

10) continued to take a moral inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11) continued to improve our conscious contact with the constitution

12) Continued to spread the program to those in need by way of attraction, not promotion. (being the kind of country others would want to emulate instead of using dominance and force).

In my view this country really needs recovery and my fear is that mr. o might have a few hidden addiction issues of his own that might muddy the water in regard to the above process that seems pretty valid in it’s effectiveness for evolving the human race to a higher moral ground.

The therapist will shut up now…

GOP IT guru’s sisters question events surrounding his death
By Stephen C. Webster
Published: April 30, 2009
Updated 12 hours ago

Is it time for some more diaries about Bush admin e-mails?

Bob in HI