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

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The Rant

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

By DOUG THOMPSON

Dec 9, 2005, 07:53

 

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publ...icle_7779.shtml

 

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”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

 

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It is the Freedom, Stupid..

 

kL

[Heimdall]

Hey, I have an idea - Let's just get rid of the Bible, after all it is just a god-damned book! Or better yet, let's outlaw the Christ Cult, after all, it is just a god-damned religion! - Heimdall

[Fweethawt]

Hey, I have an idea - Let's just get rid of the Bible, after all it is just a god-damned book! Or better yet, let's outlaw the Christ Cult, after all, it is just a god-damned religion! - Heimdall

Or better yet, let's clean out the White House and start from scratch.

After all, it's just about god-damned time!

[Ouroboros]

Bush is showing his true colors. He's just a despot that want a dictatorship of this country, not to serve the people, or defend freedom. He want his own freedom, and money and power, but remove it from everyone else.

[LloydDobler]

For those that may not know, Capitol Hill Blue is a parody site. Bush did not really say those things...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On record.

[Ouroboros]

I didn't check!!!

 

Phuu... *sigh of relief*... I got quite worried there...

[Chad3232132]

For those that may not know, Capitol Hill Blue is a parody site. Bush did not really say those things...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On record.

 

 

Though I have little doubt he has said them. And even if he hasn't, his actions speak louder than words. Worst President in history. I have no doubt 100 years from now people will look back at this Presidency as a very dark moment in American history.

[godlessgrrl]

Thank Themis for the 2-term limit. I just hope nobody repeals it.

[Chad3232132]

Thank Themis for the 2-term limit. I just hope nobody repeals it.

 

Nah, without a 2 term limit Clinton would still be President after destroying Dubya in the 2000 election, and we'd have never had to deal with Dubya or Iraq to begin with.

[Ouroboros]

To not have the 2 term limit doesn't guarantee the re-election of the president. It only gives him the right to run for president again, but you still have to have the election. With Bush current support (or lack thereof) he wouldn't be re-elected even if the 2-term policy was removed.

[Valgeir]

Yeah, and it'd be miiiiighty suspicious if he did...

[Mr. Neil]

C'mon three more years. You can do it. Come a little faster now. C'mon three more years.

[quicksand]

C'mon three more years. You can do it. Come a little faster now. C'mon three more years.

This last year has been something. Torture, chemical weapons against civilians, taxmoney for agit prop in this country as well as in iraq, illegal war, attempts at fixing elections in Iraq, torture, blackhole prisons that were former soviet prisons, torture, bumbling and incomoptence for Katrina relief, cronism, torture, scandal scandal scandal for republican leadership, stolen elections in Ohio....

 

...I don't know if I can take another three years.

 

Oh and torture. We are goddamn country that tortures!