Some President we have

[ciarrai]

Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'

Capital Hill Blue/DOUG THOMPSON | December 9 2005

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 shit 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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”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.”

[sidaust]

I will take George Bush over I bet your hero John Kerry, the cut and run liberal, so called war hero anyday....

[jimmyfid]

Atleast Mr kerry went over and served and delt with war. And in my book if you come back sane , he is a hero. And should have been our President.

[sidaust]

He betrayed his own men and the many veterans and put them in danger. His photograph is still hanging in the a museum in Vietnam along with Honoi Jane of the people who helped them win the war. He should have been tried for treason....Thank God, Thanks God,,he is not our president. He gave aid and comfort to the enemy and still is doing it today.. Only a handful of his buddies in the swift boat group out of more thank 200 supported him during his failed run to be our commander...WONDER WHY THAT IS...Because he is a traitor to his country....he will never be president and I hope no liberal like him will be president. All you leftest can do is hate the president...Thats all you can do.

Sid

[everwiser]

Do a search for Rodney Stich....or Defrauding America....
Site for Providing Insider Information to the Public
On the Deep-Seated Corruption in the
Three Branches of Government
You can't blame our current situation on one person..it is much deeper..I can't believe that with all the information available these days one would be so narrow minded.

Nice change of subject...He wasn't laying the blame for all of this country's ills on one man (John F'ing Kerry). Seems like you wanted lay them all on President Bush until confronted. There are plenty of problems in this country but it's not the fault of the Washington Fat Cats as much as it is the people of this country's apathy for their right to vote. If you sincerely want things to change, vote for change; and by that I don't mean vote either Democrat or Republican. I mean vote for anyone who is not the incumbent. We need new blood in Washington...We've been electing incumbent lawyers too long. Just my .02.

[ciarrai]

Do a search for Rodney Stich....or Defrauding America....
Site for Providing Insider Information to the Public
On the Deep-Seated Corruption in the
Three Branches of Government
You can't blame our current situation on one person..it is much deeper..I can't believe that with all the information available these days one would be so narrow minded.

pluginprofits, I know only too well who controls this country and this world and it sure as hell isn't George W Bush, he is only a puppet. He is arrogant enough though to think otherwise. As for you sidaust you would lose your bet, no way am I a John Kerry fan. I support the Constitution, like Bush he doesn't, people like Ron Paul are amongst my heroes.