I never wanted to believe that George W. Bush dismissed the Constitution as a G.D. piece of paper but I now believe he might have.
How many "republican leaders" are there who do not hold our Constitution as nearly sacred?
How many "republican leaders" see the Constitution as just a scrap of paper?
How many "republican leaders" see the Constitution as an impediment to their goals?
It is past time to find out!
I never wanted to believe that George W. Bush dismissed the Constitution as a G.D. piece of paper but I now believe he might have.
How many "republican leaders" are there who do not hold our Constitution as nearly sacred?
How many "republican leaders" see the Constitution as just a scrap of paper?
How many "republican leaders" see the Constitution as an impediment to their goals?
It is past time to find out!
Did you ever bother to find out if it was true? I did and could not find anything. As a matter of fact it was made up by that lunatic Doug Thompson from Capitol Hill Blue, who was well known for making up sources that did not exist.
Please note that he had to take to take the smear back
FUBAR
Article removed from our database
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 10, 2005, 06:02
(Updated May 16, 2006)
The article that previously appeared under this URL has been removed from our database because a followup investigation revealed the sources quoted in the article did not, as they claimed, attend a White House meeting between President George W. Bush where we reported he called the Constitution a "god damned pieced of paper."
Although we believe President Bush has a history of flagrant disregard for the protections and liberties outlined in the Constitution, we cannot confirm that he made the statement and retract the article.
Our apologies to our readers. Our policies regarding the use of unnamed sources were changed in 2006 and the article would not have appeared on this web site under those new policies.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_article_7779.shtml>Doug Thomson's apology
From FactCheck.org
December 12, 2007
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Did President Bush call the Constitution a "goddamned piece of paper?"
Is it true that President Bush called the Constitution a "goddamned piece of paper?" He has never denied it, and it appears that there were several witnesses.
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Extremely unlikely. The Web site that reported those words has a history of quoting phony sources and retracting bogus stories.
The report that Bush "screamed" those words at Republican congressional leaders in November 2005 is unsubstantiated, to put it charitably.
We judge that the odds that the report is accurate hover near zero. It comes from Capitol Hill Blue, a Web site that has a history of relying on phony sources, retracting stories and apologizing to its readers. The Quote The report was posted on Dec. 5, 2005. According to author, Doug Thompson, unnamed Republican leaders complained to Bush during a White House meeting about "onerous" portions of the USA Patriot Act, prompting the following: Capitol Hill Blue: “I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.” The evidence There's no record of Bush ever using these words in public and no other news organization has reported him using them privately. Thompson based his report on three sources whom he didn't name. He gave the date of the quote as "last month," which would put it sometime in November 2005. Thompson told us he once removed the story from his Web site when others raised doubts and no other news organization came up with a similar story. But he said he later reinstated it and currently believes it to be true. "I wrote the story and I stand by it," Thompson said in a telephone interview. Thompson told us he based the story on e-mail messages from three persons he knows, all of whom claim to have been present at a White House meeting and to have heard Bush make the statement. He said he finds their account credible: "Sometimes I just have to go with my gut, and my gut tells me he did say this." The unreliable gut Thompson's "gut" has proven to be a unreliable guide in the past, however. He has admitted quoting trusted sources in the past who later turned out to be frauds -- twice.
But we also note that Thompson described his own reporting habits this way: Doug Thompson (July 26, 2006): I started taking more chances with stories, jumping on ones with sketchy sources, always trying to outdo the last "big" story. I had people willing to help me and they would send me info that I used often on their word alone.By Thompson's own account, these were the habits still in place when he reported the "piece of paper" quote in 2005. We also note that Thompson expresses extreme personal hostility toward Bush, calling him in one recent article a "madman," a "despot," and "a man without honor, a leader without conscience and a human being without a shred of decency or humanity." Thompson is a former Republican congressional aide and political consultant. He was manager of the National Association of Realtors political action committee for several years, ending in 1992. But his experience as a journalist prior to launching Capitol Hill Blue was limited to working as a local reporter at the Roanoke Times and a columnist at The Telegraph (Alton, Ill.), ending in 1981. He currently lives and works from his home near the town of Floyd in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, nearly 290 miles away from the White House. |
It is past time to find out!
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Indeed it is!
Want a quick indicator of those in the GOP who view the Constitution as a dishrag?
Find all who have degrees from any Ivy League school. Especially Harvard or Yale.
Right there is a strong predictor of anti-American tendencies.
Bush Jr. was Yale undergrad and Harvard MBA. Both elitist and an idiot about business. When you look across the wreckage of the economy, you find a great number of Harvard MBA’s in hotspots of the meltdown - who thought clear through August 2008 that they were right and this “sub-prime” thing was so very overblown.
Go ahead. Check ‘em out.
I’d prefer to be led by 535 PFC’s covered in mud from the USMC than the graduating class of any Ivy League school. The PFC’s are much smarter than the graduates of Ivy League schools - their NCO’s have drummed into them one very important fact: they don’t have all the answers, and that they could be wrong. And that being wrong sometimes hurts.
Whereas the Ivies have convinced their graduates of the complete opposite.