Post by Shadow on Dec 18, 2005 13:11:06 GMT -5
DID AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT REALLY UTTER THESE WORDS?
News With Views
By: Devvy
December 16, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The Internet has been burning up this past week over a column written by Doug Thompson for Capitol Hill Blue. There hasn't been a single word about this controversial column on any major or cable network- all owned by new world order advocates. Just what did Thompson write that has so many Americans seething? In his December 9, 2005 column, Thompson writes:
"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!"
Thompson goes on to say, "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."
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News With Views
By Geoff Metcalf
December 13, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
“You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything…”
Aaron Tippet and Buddy Brock wrote a song titled ‘You’ve Got To Stand for Something’. The warning to the lyric notes “or you’ll fall for anything.”
I often say, “It’s not a question of WHO is right or wrong but WHAT is right or wrong that matters.”
Different people have difference guidelines for determining what is ‘right’.
In this polarized/acrimonious/perpetual contact sport between left and right, liberal and conservative, democrat and republican, (demonstrated by Ann Coulters and Al Frankens), so much emphasis is put on sizzle, we rarely get to sink our teeth into the steak.
It was disconcerting to read Doug Thompson’s recent rant in Capitol Hill Blue in which he claims President Bush diminished and marginalized the Constitution. Thompson reportedly talked to three people who were in a meeting in which the President of the United States called the Constitution just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
No, Mr. President, blasphemy notwithstanding, the Constitution is much more. The constitution is the essence of what America is, and for many, a yardstick for measuring what is right.
News With Views
By: Devvy
December 16, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The Internet has been burning up this past week over a column written by Doug Thompson for Capitol Hill Blue. There hasn't been a single word about this controversial column on any major or cable network- all owned by new world order advocates. Just what did Thompson write that has so many Americans seething? In his December 9, 2005 column, Thompson writes:
"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!"
Thompson goes on to say, "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."
Related
MORE THAN A 'PIECE OF PAPER'!
News With Views
By Geoff Metcalf
December 13, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
“You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything…”
Aaron Tippet and Buddy Brock wrote a song titled ‘You’ve Got To Stand for Something’. The warning to the lyric notes “or you’ll fall for anything.”
I often say, “It’s not a question of WHO is right or wrong but WHAT is right or wrong that matters.”
Different people have difference guidelines for determining what is ‘right’.
In this polarized/acrimonious/perpetual contact sport between left and right, liberal and conservative, democrat and republican, (demonstrated by Ann Coulters and Al Frankens), so much emphasis is put on sizzle, we rarely get to sink our teeth into the steak.
It was disconcerting to read Doug Thompson’s recent rant in Capitol Hill Blue in which he claims President Bush diminished and marginalized the Constitution. Thompson reportedly talked to three people who were in a meeting in which the President of the United States called the Constitution just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
No, Mr. President, blasphemy notwithstanding, the Constitution is much more. The constitution is the essence of what America is, and for many, a yardstick for measuring what is right.
