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Title: Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
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URL Source: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
Published: Dec 9, 2005
Author: DOUG THOMPSON
Post Date: 2005-12-09 17:12:30 by Itisa1mosttoolate
Keywords: Constitution:, goddamned, paper
Views: 454
Comments: 35
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper' By DOUG THOMPSON Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act. Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal. GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. “I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.” “Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.” “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.” And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the s**t that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.” Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine – in the end – if something is legal or right. Every federal official – including the President – who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.” “"Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake.” As a judge, Scalia says, “I don't have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it's better than anything else.” President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion. Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights. “We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don't think that it's a one-way street.” And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States. But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.” © Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue
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#12. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.” “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” Mr Born Again Christian President...yeah, right.
Right... and the bible is a quaint book of old fashioned ideas... right GW? WHATTA LOSER that guy is... worse than even I thought... gawd... Hang him at dawn... I've got a rope.
Is that a date, sweetie? ;^)
siagiah: Hang him at dawn... I've got a rope. To: siagiah Is that a date, sweetie? ;^) why not? Meet me under the big ole, oak tree at the top of the hill outside the white house. I'll be the gal with the rope... (-: Which one'll you be?
Ummm...the guy with the roll of quarters in his pocket. Hangings and good looking women with ropes are exciting. LOL
It's Not Just a Piece of Paper The New American "A president, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be a leader of a free people." According to the December 9 Capitol Hill Blue, "Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act." When GOP leaders told Bush that his "hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives," he reportedly shot back, "I don't give a g*****n, I'm the President and Commander- in-Chief. Do it my way." The report also stated that when one aide in the meeting said "there is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution," Bush allegedly screamed: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a g*******d piece of paper." Since the report did not reveal its sources, I have no proof that Bush said such a thing. However, given his utter contempt for the Constitution and for the rights of the people he supposedly serves, I have no reason to doubt that he thinks that way. Had Thomas Jefferson lived today, he might be tempted to pen the following: "When in the course of U.S. events it becomes necessary for Americans to demand that their duly elected representatives impeach and remove from office a president, a decent respect to the opinions of their fellow citizens requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to such a course of action. "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that elected officials should not be removed from office for light and transient causes. But when a long train of unconstitutional executive branch abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to take back delegated authority from an official who is manifestly unsuitable to exercise it. "The history of the current president of the United States of America, like many of his predecessors, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these United States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid public. "He has obstructed the administration of justice, by derailing or refusing to cooperate with the efforts of those who seek to uncover the intelligence 'failures' which led to 9/11 -- and then he created the inauspicious Department of Homeland Security. "He has elevated federal deficits to new levels, and sent hither swarms of dollars to finance our spending, which are silently eating out our substance through the insidious tax of inflation. "He has assaulted the sanctity of the home and family, and the rights of parents, by establishing the framework of nationalized education, pushing for mandatory mental health screenings of all school- age children, supporting embryonic stem-cell research, and endorsing 'civil unions' for homosexuals. "He has undermined our immigration laws, which are necessary for the protection of our nation's borders, to keep those who would do our nation harm from entering herein. "He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power, even using taxpayer money to fund a standing international army of UN peacekeepers called the Global Peace Operations Initiative. "He has combined with others to subject our citizenry to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which is foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws. "For quartering large bodies of troops in a sovereign nation that never attacked, nor posed a threat to, our nation, and using them to enforce UN resolutions. "For depriving some, whom he has declared to be 'enemy combatants' in the War on Terror, of the most basic rights of habeas corpus, legal counsel, and trial by jury -- setting an ominous precedent for all other Americans. "For eroding our nation's independence under the false premise of 'free trade agreements,' ostensibly for the purpose of opening up trade with all parts of the world. "For creating the Security and Prosperity Partnership -- an expansion of NAFTA -- to http://online.org/am/386" target=_blank>merge our nation with Mexico and Canada under a regional government, in addition to building a hemispheric political union via CAFTA and the FTAA. "He has plundered our nation's treasury, plunging Americans headlong into bankruptcy, leading ultimately to the obliteration of the American middle class. "He is at this time transporting accused terrorists to foreign mercenaries at 'black sites' to complete the works of interrogation, 'rendition,' and torture with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. "A president, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be a leader of a free people." Mr. President, when you placed your hand over the Bible, raised your arm, and swore an oath before God to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" (Article II, Section I), that wasn't "just a book" you put your hand on. And it certainly wasn't a mealy-mouthed "agreement" you made before your Maker -- whose name you have no compunction about taking in vain. And Mr. President, the Constitution is not just a piece of paper.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
#13. To: All (#12)
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
#22. To: siagiah (#13)
Hang him at dawn... I've got a rope.
#30. To: BTP Holdings (#22)
#31. To: siagiah (#30)
why not? Meet me under the big ole, oak tree at the top of the hill outside the white house. I'll be the gal with the rope... (-: Which one'll you be?
#34. To: OKCSubmariner (#31)
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