The State Department was facing new questions on Friday about its handling of another case, involving a former Blackwater guard who is suspected of shooting a bodyguard to an Iraqi vice president while drunk last Christmas Eve.
Brennan has been very outspoken against Trump, saying the president is "drunk on power," dangerous, and has committed acts "not short of treasonous". As a result, the administration and its supporters have focused on the style of the former director's rhetoric ― the White House cited Brennan's "erratic conduct" ― and shucked its meaning.
Lazy armchair speculation dictates that most of our presidents were drunks.
Glynn R. Birch National President Mothers Against Drunk Driving Irving, Tex., Oct. 18, 2005.
If Russia had a president who was drunk - who, according to a joke at the time, had difficulty keeping his seat in the upright position - Russia today has an all too sober, Teutonic-looking man who is terrified of releasing his grip on power.
Vice President Andrew Johnson, undoubtedly drunk, who has just disgraced himself in his own inauguration speech, is on the platform, as are the pious and ambitious chief justice of the United States, Salmon P. Chase; the serene and cocky secretary of state, William H. Seward; and a host of other tall-hatted, frock-coated men.
Recently, the show debunked a Russian news report that President Poroshenko had, while drunk, thoughtlessly given a soccer ball as a gift to a Ukrainian soldier whose leg had been amputated because of a war injury.
Its president, Boris Yeltsin, was frequently drunk and barely functioning.
"Now we know from research that parents who talk to their kids frequently about drinking -- it's very effective in reducing underage drinking," Jan Withers, the National President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, told me.
Unions got scared and beaten down, a frat boy became president and, like a drunk out of control, spent all our fucking money and our children's money, too.
