Dubya Not a Happy Camper

Apparently, President Bush hasn’t been an easy guy to work for these past few weeks. According to a New York Daily News article, he’s been taking his frustrations out on his staffers.

Says the article:

“The President is just unhappy in general and casting blame all about,” said one Bush insider. “Andy [Card, the chief of staff] gets his share. Karl gets his share. Even Cheney gets his share. And the press gets a big share.”

The vice president remains Bush’s most trusted political confidant. Even so, the Daily News has learned Bush has told associates Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues in the runup to the Iraq war that have been seized on by Bush critics.

Bush is so dismayed that “the only person escaping blame is the President himself,” said a sympathetic official, who delicately termed such self-exoneration “illogical.”

And it doesn’t look like his staffers are in for a break from the scapegoating anytime soon.

The administration continues to take fire from all quarters. Republican Senators this week have expressed their lack of enthusiasm for Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Karl Rove and Scooter Libby have been officially informed that they are in legal trouble due to obstruction of justice in the Plame leak case.

Meanwhile, all his grandstanding for Hurricane Rita didn’t do much to boost his job approval rating after the abysmal federal screwup that was Hurricane Katrina. In fact, his approval ratings have sunk so low that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has a higher approval rating among Arizona Republicans than he does. Keep in mind that Napolitano is not only a Democrat, but reportedly queer as a three dollar bill.

It’s almost enough to make me feel sorry for the guy. Almost…