what is "clearing brush" a euphemism for at the White House?

[fryguy]

"He's clearing some brush this morning," deputy White House press secretary Trent Duffy said Tuesday.


he's always off doing this when something happens.....is this the White House's way of saying he's drunk off his ass and can't come to the phone?

[sui generis]

1. you know, trimming some bush

locking locking (?) locking

[BlueEyedSon]

2. "Nursing a hangover"

[fryguy]

17. ny thoughts exactly

eom

[dave123williams]

3. Banging Condi?

[Radical Activist]

10. making on oral presentation for her?

[trayfoot]

24. I don't know............

The Gay and Lesbian Community seem to think Condi is a Lesbian??????? Of course, there are those who think shrub is bisexual........

[Technowitch]

4. "He's on one of his usual two-week benders."

[Sparkly]

5. "The Preznit can't talk right now... The scriptwriters aren't available."

Or, his battery is recharging.

[Lautremont]

6. "Beering some Crush"

I heard he likes to drink beer mixed with grape Crush. Sounds pretty gross to me.

[DakotaDemocrat]

7. He's sharing his love with someone...

...or some thing...

[Atman]

8. R is for REHAB...BUSH + R = BRUSH

Just made it up. But it works for me!



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[Sparkly]

9. Ooooh -- also, BRUSH = SHRUB rearranged

[aquart]

12. So, is shrub getting clear?

Like, he's secretly converted to scientology?

Okay, I need to lie down and rest now.

[Sparkly]

15. Clear Channel? Clear Skies? New-Clear? Clearasil?

Or as you said, scientology...

[idiosyncratic]

14. Molly Ivins would be so proud. :-)

[fryguy]

18. and isn't a shrub similar to brush?

but then what do i know....i'm just a liberal yankee city-slicker

[Lefty48197]

11. Meeting with Karen Hughes to plot ways to confiscate returnables from

homeless people

[FreeCajun]

13. burning fraud evidence...

[ClarkUSA]

16. Seemed a bit pale at that press conference - no "clearing brush" glow

Looked like he was bloated and hungover to me.

[fryguy]

19. not to mention burst blood vessels in his cheeks

syrosis of the liver next perhaps?

[ShadesOfC]

20. Hmmmm.....

....it means he's finetuning his image, that of the "shoots straight from the hip" proud but manly leader.

I guess Bush can't help how he projects, he is what he is: feeble-minded, shiftless, soulless and combative. What a scumbag!!!

[newyawker99]

29. Hi ShadesOfC!!

Welcome to DU!!

[Straight Shooter]

21. It means he's undergoing medical treatment.

That's why he goes to Crawford after a "grueling" schedule. Grueling to him, anyway, not to someone who is actually accustomed to working for a living.

But I digress. Little Boots has a mini medical complex at Crawford and receives specialized medical treatment which he requires on a continual basis. This explains why, frankly, he looked like total crap when he gave the statement. Even makeup cannot disguise his ill health.

Expect to see Little Boots going to Crawford on a fairly regular basis, more so than he did his first term. Makes you wonder if Osama isn't the only one on dialysis, eh?

[MADem]

22. I agree, I've always thought that

...it is a euphemism for "medication adjustment." Some of those stronger drugs are hard to tolerate, they cause loginess, weight gain, and eliminate the highs and lows that happen in "normal" life, at least for some patients. He probably isn't super-compliant, and I'll bet he "forgets" to take his daily dosage if the Lump isn't around to remind him....

As for Osama, I think that dialysis thing is bullshit. I think they may have used it temporarily after a severe kidney infection (probably due to dehydration, very common in that end of the world) and he probably has weak kidneys, but I'll bet they haven't failed...and if they have, he probably bought a couple off some poor, well-matched Pakistani villagers.

[XemaSab]

30. I bet ol' Osama

Doesn't have much of a problem finding voluntary kidney donors in that part of the world.

[American Tragedy]

34. The bottom line is that we don't know

We really don't know much of anything about Osama bin Laden's present condition. He seems to be doing well enough to continue to send us his vacation tapes though.

[PurityOfEssence]

23. Being butch and manly

It doesn't have a shred of truth to it; his handlers bring him his chainsaw as the sedan chair footman place him for the photo-op.

If they were living trees, I might believe it.

He wants to be Reagan, but unfortunately, even Reagan wasn't Reagan; in a way, they're birds of a feather: ciphers who dance whatever tune is most convenient. Like St. Ronnie, Junior has no core; there's no there there, and the posturing just accentuates that.

[Piperay]

25. Dead drunk nt

[slor]

26. Getting help with...

the consumption of pretzels.

[Borgnine]

27. Trimming his pubic hair?

Condi likes her men neat and tidy.

And with that visual, I shall bid you a good night.

[opihimoimoi]

28. Hitler lost the war sleeping in on D DAY nursing a hangover

with orders not to be awakened FOR ANY REASON..... WHAT ONLY A FEW PEOPLE KNEW AT THE TIME...he was a dying man...ravaged by syphlis, he didn't give a shit. He woulda lost the war anyways but the point he was not in the right frame of mind.

Bush is not in the right frame of mind too.... and Just like Hitler, and Idi Amin, etc etc, his handlers spin the shit into ice cream for consumption by the masses... most of whom will find it tasty....

What does Bush Have???....in terms of a disease???.......... I don't know but.......there are too many bizzarre incidents.... that something is amiss. ... In Hitlers case, motion pictures of him throughout the 30's and 40's until his death.... show an advance of trembling in his left hand.... at first ...the doctors studying the films thought it was parkinsons.... but then...shifted to Syphlis...

What does Bush have??? that would cause a complete disregard for the Future and the American People in general?

[marcologico]

31. working with his reading specialist

because Laura gave up

[truthisfreedom]

32. i think he goes there to meet with his mafia handlers.

everything that happens there is off the record. he meets with his cronies and his criminal underworld controllers, and figures out exactly what points of the constitution and law that they want him to subvert next.

[Sandy_0]

33. Some of us have known about this since before the election

Please check this out. He Bush may have had major surgery.
PHOTOS Show George W. Bush Seriously Ill Physically

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4891

George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking. Based on photos showing him wearing the device, one can conclude the fainting was due to atrial fibrillation (AF), which his father also had.

His father’s AF was caused by Graves? hyperthyroidism, which Barbara Bush also has. Bush Jr likely has AF and, less likely, Graves?, based on his family history and symptoms. The AF may have caused a stroke or TIA (mini-stroke), of which physicians watching the debates detected symptoms. Observers have noted psychological symptoms consistent with this and with Wernicke-Korsakoff disease.

[radfringe]

35. bush-whacking n/t

[frustrated_lefty]

36. Naw,

it just means he's a good republican.

[baldingrockwarlord]

37. .

brush is shrub spelled sideways, sort of.....

[marcologico]

38. wanking in the Lincoln bedroom