Yes, you read the title right– I didn’t think I would be writing about this on this site, either.

Ted Casablanca from E! Online–one of my fave gossip columnists (he’s flamboyant and usually right, unlike some other gay gossip blogger who is usually so wrong) has got a major scoop on the state of the Bush’s union. Apparently Laura is staying at a hotel while the Prez stays at the White House because Bush has fallen off the wagon again. Dear Lord, The West Wing couldn’t make this stuff up:

“She’s staying at the Hay-Adams. I don’t know how many people know…but it’s probably not many.”

That’s my Desk DeeCee, hard at busybody work, informing me further of what this column has more than hinted at before: that the U.S. Chief of Grief, George W. Bush, has a wife (by the name of Laura, ‘course) who’s so damn put out by the tee-totaling Texan’s return to drinking that she had to get outta the White House. Woo-hoo! That be first-class First Lady dish there, my darlin’ goss lovers!

“She just couldn’t take it anymore,” whispered a former White House staffer who remains superclose to Miz Bush. “She’s had it.”

Oh, for the official record, neither the president’s press office nor the president’s wife’s press office would comment. Which I find damn insulting, as I help pay those persnickety peep’s salaries!

Paparazzi P.S.: Hate to blow Laura’s cover ‘n’ all, but look, you stalkers of all things Hollywood—if you want an exclusive snap of L.B., she’s not exactly using the posh inn’s front door, ka-peesh?

If this is true…then, wow. Words fail me. I mean, I knew a lot of don’t like the man and his policies, but I wasn’t exactly expecting trouble on the home front, either (well other than that whole pesky Iraq thing he’s caused). If he’s drinking again (as he has been convicted of a DUI in the past) then I’m not surprised his wife is getting fed up of his behavior.

Still, a First Lady walking out on the President? Not even Jackie O did that to JFK with his numerous infidelities. At the risk of sounding like an old betty, I never though I’d see the day….