"Constitution Just a G-ddamned Piece of Paper"

Carol's Place for Peace, pointed me to this piece from Capitol Hill Blue by Doug Thompson.

If any of this actually occurred, then it is both shocking and disgusting, and actually shows the contempt that this tyranical wanne be has for our system of government which has done a pretty good job of paving the way for more than 200 years. Also if this did actually occur and some of the sources were verifyable, then why did the mainstream media not pick up on this atrocity?

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 heard from two White House sources who claim they heard from others present in the meeting that the President of the United States called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper.

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the "Constitution is an outdated document."

The only thing outdated here Mr. Gonzalez your interpretation of the proceeding legal matters. How in the world is this man considered to be our country's top lawyer and is supposed to represent and defend the constitution, not actually rip it apart as an outdated document that only applies piece meal to whateve cause is convinient based upon his political agenda. Not a great day for our democratic republic indeed.