Laura to George: "It's Me or the Jim Beam"

Once Laura Bush said to W, "It's Me or the Jim Beam."

He did what many drunks do -- turn to religion.

Brings to mind a statement I once heard from a radio sales exec. She described a friend who'd be a doper turned born again. "If you do drugs, you can certainly do Jesus," she said. Or, to paraphrase Baudelaire -- as channeled through O'Neill in his Long Days Journey into Night -- be drunk. Bush is drunk on his own ego and divine mission and he can't say no to just one more goblet of "The Holy Spirit" for the road.