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

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Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
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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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”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.”

© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue

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

Niiiiice.

Can anyone provide me with a reason why he deserves to be President and Commander-in-Chief?

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

Holy...fucking...shit. :blink:

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

He was elected.

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

I love simple, declarative sentences. :)

Yeppers, the Canadian got it in one. The putz was elected. So...who's to blame when Bush goes off like this?

The voters.

In the last election, my husband and I read until I thought our eyes were going to bleed. This was just a "minor" election, too. Voting isn't just a "right," it's one helluva responsibility. As San Diegans have discovered, watching our representatives and city councilmen go one by one to prison. Not to mention our mayor resigning in disgrace.

Real easy to say "oh, bad people, very bad people." But who in the absolute HELL elected these bad people???

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

Actually, Gore should have been in there.

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

His attitude and temper tantrum doesn't surprise me in the least. It does, however, scare the shit out me.

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

Absolutely if you had voted to change the entire way that a President is elected , but you didn't , so he wasn't :)

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

OK, this is really starting to bug.

Why does the Canadian person know more about the way our government works than the Americans do?

Could we get a couple of Americans who read in here?

(Nick...I know what you're thinking at that last line...please restrain yourself.) :)

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

I don't believe there are any Rhodes Scholars on the board...

;-))))


( see Ryan...)

:)

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

True, true, The Electoral College itself is dated. The majority vote was Gore.

Bush winning by 225 votes in his brother's state has raised quite a few eye brows.

However, the contitution is the check and balance of our goverment.

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

Lol, it is just me or is that site/article the political equivalent of the National Enquirer?

And you all seem to take it for fact...

?

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

Predictable answer.

And wrong.

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

oh please enlighten me how so oh wise grey haired bastard of the East...

;-)

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

Believe it or not, folks...that WAS restrained. :)

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

Now therefore I shalt say unto thee, move thine cursor to this place and click. :mf_popean

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

Well I'll be damned ( probably a given)

But I had no idea you were a looney.

:)

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

You're losing your memory Nick...
http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/showthread.php?t=44128 :waving:

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

Georgie Porgie doesn't even have absolute power and he's totally corrupted. Stupid bastard should be impeached for incompetency.
http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/storm.gif

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

Always good to see how the colonies are doing :okthumb:

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

Remind me to bitch-slap ya later. ;)

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

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons* command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

:D

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

Entry GRANTED! lol

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

You all have been had. I think. Not sure who is soofing who or what :blink:

found this:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i9885

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

Oh que non!

I want the bilingual version!

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

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad,
Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed.
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra mor yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.
Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn i'm golwg sydd hardd;
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.
Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad tan ei droed,
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed,
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad.

:D

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

Newton is now my favorite poster! :okthumb:

Not everyday you see Celtic posted!

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

HAHAHAHA that was wonderful! LOL

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

And you haven't...

Its fucking welsh...

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

We don't impeach for silly things like that. Now get him a blow-job and then we're in business !

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

And where do you think Welsh comes from? Hmmm? :rolleyes:

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

Alas conservative Republicans don't have sex ...

And Bush's only screwing is the nation as a whole.

Pass a giant blue light over the country and it's covered in Dubya goo. :barfon:

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

Moron...what you are saying is the same as calling French , Spanish and fucking Italian the same...

Its fucking Welsh...not celtic , gaelic or any other fucking language... it is "welsh" a language spoken by people on slightly less vile then the french!!!

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

Well I knew it was either Gaelic, Welsh or something Celtic. ;)

Hmm. What do you think of Manx? :p

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

I can actually speak a smattering of Guernsey patois so Dravyk "bis ma chu"

:)

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

St Patrick was Welsh too .. seriously ;)

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

I'm suspecting you have Welsh tendancies....

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

Easy!! lol

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

Don't go getting all French on me now...

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

LOL *grabs popcorn*

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

And they wont even pass out condoms for it.

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

Gesundheit!! :yowsa:

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

Just say no!

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

unfortunately I don't think abstinence is an option in this case.

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

Really? I have actually been to the island of Jersey and heard some strange dialects there.

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

I lived in Guernsey for about 8 yrs :)