Tabloid truth exposes Shots of Mass Destruction

Thanks to The Binary Circumstance for revealing how tabloids may have uncovered the truth of Bush's return to the bottle. Noting how tabloids recently got it right about Brad Pitt leaving Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie, Binary Circumstanc postulates they may also be bang on with the rumours of Bush being caught knocking back "Texas sized" shots after Katrina flattened and flooded New Orleans.

I don't think this is anything that would shock most people - but if it did come out it would be the kind of salacious revelation that would sink Bush for good. Fortunately for him he's only got three more years to keep it under wraps (or two if you discount the final year of electioneering for his successor). I like to think of the existance of those "Texas sized shots" reported in the Enquirer to be like the existance of those weapons of mass distruction that supposedly existed in Iraq. They are something a good number of people would like to believe exist - something some preemptive strikes could be done based on because if they did exist the consequences could be really bad (or good depending on your point of view). But they may or may not exist and in this case we don't have any inspectors probing the White House or the Shrub-in-Chief's bloodstream to look for them.

Personally I don't give a hoot whether the President consumes a healthy amount of alcohol, just like the rest of us, so long as he's not incapacitated when it comes to making major decisions. I'm sure those Presidents that have openly consumed alcohol (which is most of them) have, at one time or the other, been in a situation where they are incapacitated and not able to make a Presidential decision. So I would hope there is a protocol to keep at least one of the President or Vice President stone cold sober.

But... if the President goes on record as saying he never drinks, and uses that has a campaigning tool, and then it turns out he was lying all along. Well, in that case I'd say it was a pretty darned serious problem. Indeed we should probably have random spot checks of the Presidents blood stream because if he was lying about booze who knows what else he's lying about.