On page 13 of the introductory pamphlet A Brief Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous, the organization's famous 12 steps begin as such: We admit we are powerless over alcohol—that our lives have become unmanageable. Although President Bush maintains that he quit the sauce on his own, without the help of AA, he is evidently familiar with their directives, for on Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, Bush admitted that we have a problem: global warming.