12 December 2005

It's just a goddamned piece of paper

What our president thinks about the U.S. Constitution

“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.



Comments

Bush is obviosuly pissed about provisions that may, or may not be Constitutional. Emotions and emotional outbursts don't mean a thing.
If they did, Kerry, dean, Durbin, and many others would be toast.
And the Patriot Act, despite the claims of many, has not proven to be detrimental to the Constitution, nor to our civil rights. And please, proposed Amendments mean dick when these proposals aren't even initiated in Congress. Who cares how many proposals have been attempted?

Rather than waste space, text and peoples time reading this garble about emotional outbursts, and political rhetoric, the author would attract more conversation if he were to address the issue of conflicts between the Court and Oval Office throughout this country's history. Specifically, he could ask and provide evidence to the question, "Does George Bush view the three Branches and Constitution as Jefferson did (and for that matter FDR, when he tried to fix the Court). Read the following quotes from Thomas Jefferson:
"My construction of the Constitution is . . . that each department is truly independent of the others and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the Constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially where it is to act ultimately and without appeal."
—Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819. ME 15:214

"The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
—Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:51

Now that would be interesting. My guess is all Presidents have faced this obstacle at one point and have all muttered the same thing, or at least pondered "What the Fuck!" when it came to Supreme Court decisions.