Abused By Illusions

Friday, December 09, 2005

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

Read my earlier open letter as I think it outlines nicely my feelings on a statement like this. This statement by a sitting President of the United States of America perfectly illustrates all that is wrong with our country. Read the excerpt below and then read Mr. Thompson's full article here!

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.

Read the Complte article at Capitol Hill Blue.

Posted by CIAbramson at 6:34 PM

Thank you for posting this. I had not heard of this and I am in a state of shock. Not that he called the constitution a piece of paper, but rather that he used that choice of profanity. I do find it hard to believe that the media has not taken this to the Scott Peterson level of journalism and spread it like wild fire. But given Bush's track record, defaming the constitution does not surprise me at all. I will have to link this from my blog so my three readers get a chance to look this over.

Thanks,
BT

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