Bush Psychology of Failure - Avoidance

Briggs and Briggs have a new estimation of the psychological underpinnings of our President, George Bush. In their most recent published analysis, the father and son duo ponder various symptoms and figure upon the extent of potential diagnoses. According to the prominent psychologists Briggs and Briggs, Bush has done great harm and is likely to do more - unless he is confronted directly by Congress, a Congress in need of a newfound will to assert its oversight authority. Here's a sample:

... the effect of Bush's psychodynamics on the presidency have created a situation where his personality is as genuinely dangerous to the nation as if he were delusional.

Psychologically, Bush's one non-negotiable position is that he must never have to face his failures because once he found Jesus as his personal savior, he put all his failures (and failings) behind him. But now, after seven years as president, his failure is everywhere. Unlike presidents Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson and even Richard Nixon, Bush seems incapable of coping with his defeats by taking some redeeming direction. In the next year, we believe his behavior will continue to be guided by his need for massive avoidance of his feelings of inadequacy, particularly with regard to Iraq. Success in other areas means little to him and he gives them scant concern for his "legacy." He has identified himself as "a war president." The war is linked to his vague sense of divine mission, his internal aggression, his never-ending competition with his father.
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