HE BEGAN BY Blowing Up FROGS

TREASURE FACTS about our fearless leader:

O As a kid, he used to torture frogs by pushing firecrackers into them, and then lighting the fuses.

O In college, he branded frat pledges on the buttocks with red-hot coat hangers.

O As Governor of Texas, he went on national TV and mimicked a woman who’d pleaded with him to spare her life by waiving the death penalty. (“Bush felt able to mock Karla Faye Tucker in conversation with conservative reporter Tucker Carlson: “’Please,” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’”)

All this is from Bush on the Couch, 2004, by Harvard-educated applied psychoanalyst Justin Frank. Frank says these and other of Bush’s behaviors strongly suggest he’s a pathological sadist.

Sadist. N. “Person driven to administer pain in such a way that he can see and enjoy the effects of his efforts….”

Interesting, isn’t it, that Bushy presided over more executions than any governor in American history? (Frank, p. 111) That as we speak he’s breaking the law in order to torture people? (Or did he force his lap-dog Congress to pass a law letting him get his jollies legally,here? I can’t remember.)

Unfortunately, sadism is just one of the mental problems Frank suggests is troubling our fearless leader. He notes that Bush has a lifelong pattern of breaking the law (and getting away with it). He makes a strong case for Bush having an “alcoholic personality.”

The most troubling of all: Frank makes a great case for the possibility that Bush is just plain out of touch with reality.