“Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper”
As I’ve noted before, President Bush has reportedly been drinking and throwing tantrums in the White House of late.
Now comes this report from Capitol Hill Blue that quotes Bush as saying of the U. S. Constitution, “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper.”
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
I would have to agree that there are problems with the Constitution. It contradicts itself and is based largely on irrational premises like the belief that some people have a right to control the lives of others while also making slavery is illegal.
But Bush, on the other hand, dragged our country into a war in Iraq so that they could have a democratic form of government built on a constitution. Over 2,000 young men and women have died fighting Bush’s war. I wonder how their families and loved ones fell hearing Bush call the U.S. Constitution “just a goddamned piece of paper.”
Is that what those young men and women have given their lives for? Apparently George W. Bush thinks so.
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