[lbo-talk] "It?s just a goddamned piece of paper!"

[Mike Ballard]

This is just TOO DELISH.  He's got his political head about as far up his ass
the leader of Iran now!

Cheers,
Mike B)  

Justin quoted this article:
Bush on the  Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned
> > > piece of  paper'
> > > By DOUG THOMPSON
> > > Dec 9, 2005,  07:53


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House counsel, wrote that the "Constitution is an  outdated document."

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