Monday, December 12, 2005

It is just paper, if you treat it so

I got this from G, and I'll just print the quote and give the link, because if it doesnt explain BushCo, you'll never be convinced. The only thing missing is an "authorative" confirmation of "fact", and we'll never get that with the current compromised state of the News Media.
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.”
The source is something called Capital Hill Blue, which I've never heard of. This doesnt mean it's not true. The actions of the Bush Corporation make it quite clear that they have little respect for any rule but their own desire.

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