Bush: Consitution is just a "goddamned piece of paper"

An interesting article in Capitol Hill Blue about Bush and his reported comments about our constitution. I don't know much about the reporter, Doug Thompson, but according to a subsequent article (see http://tinyurl.com/7lql2), he claims to have won numerous journalism awards. ???
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From: Capitol Hill Blue (http://tinyurl.com/9d8fw)

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Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53

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.

(see http://tinyurl.com/9d8fw for full article)