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You are getting into a corner. If Bush violated the constitution by letting this bill go to the USSC what have past presidents been guilty of by enforcing laws that they are on record as believing unconstitutional?

Yes, that's hardly a new revelation. And it's not something to strive for and accept, is it?

That's the point: we thought when we elected Bush that we were getting someone who actually would bring us back to honoring the constitution. If we're again supposed to accept the inevitable and believe that presidents are not expected to do what they are bound by law to do, then I guess none of the rest of us has to obey the law, either.

When and exactly WHERE, speciffically, did candidate Bush claim that he was going to bring this nation " back " to honoring the Constitution ... in a manner that you think that " honoring the Constitution " means ? Please do NOT use the oath of office. Every president, from Washington on down, has said those words. They didn't all do so; not even the FFs.

That's the point: we thought when we elected Bush that we were getting someone who actually would bring us back to honoring the constitution. If we're again supposed to accept the inevitable and believe that presidents are not expected to do what they are bound by law to do, then I guess none of the rest of us has to obey the law, either.

No, we elected a president NOT a dictator or some mythical “conservative” ideal. A president cannot single handedly wipe out every "unconstitutional" law on the books. He is sworn to UPHOLD those laws. He would be impeached if he did not. You are projecting an image of a president that can NEVER be achieved beyond a complete suspension of the very constitution that you want upheld. Your litmus test can never be achieved as long as there are those that do not share your definition of a real conservative, which includes approx 75% of the country. You are doomed to be disappointed in anyone that is elected because no one can meet the standard you have set.