Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides

Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides

Capitol Hill Blue again treading where no one else will: "Senior aides describe Bush as increasingly “edgy” or “nervous” or “unfocused.” They say the President goes from apparent coherent thought one moment to aimless rambles about political enemies and those who are “out to get me.”

“It’s worse than the days when Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s began setting in,” one longtime GOP operative told me privately this week. “You don’t know if he’s going to be coherent from one moment to the next. What scares me is if he lapses into one of those fogs during a public appearance.”"