“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

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The Rant

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Bush on the Constitution: A ‘goddamned piece of paper’ By DOUG THOMPSON Dec 5, 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!”

This information comes from three West Wing sources who say a fourth White House employee in the meeting told them the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.” That employee refused to return my phone calls but this kind of behavior is consistent with Bush’s record on ignoring the Constitution when it suits his political purpose.

The American Police State

by William L. Anderson by William L. Anderson DIGG THIS The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008, 264 pages (paperback), $16.95. In the past six years, I have written a number of articles, papers, and columns about how any pretense of the rule of law in the United States is dead. This was not always the position I took, but after reading the hardback version of The Tyranny of Good Intentions in 2001, I realized that not only were the people who were officially entrusted with keeping the law in this country not interested in fulfilling their duties, but that the very nature of law itself in the USA has fundamentally changed. That change, unfortunately, has been for the worse. I wish I had more comforting words. Paul Craig Roberts, an economist and a former assistant secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration, and Lawrence M. Stratton, an attorney and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Ethics at Princeton Seminary, have exposed the modern U.S. legal system for the wretched lie that it has become. From the fraud of the “War on Terror” to the destruction of ancient legal doctrines, Roberts and Stratton document the death of law in the United States. Before I go through the litany of cases and situations that Roberts and Stratton present, I first must point out that the main service they do is not the presentation of many injustices that are a regular part of U.S. law today – though what they say is important, if not downright discouraging. (I would warn all readers that they need to prepare to be angry and shocked at the many evils done today in the name of the law. If a reader has problems with high blood pressure, I would urge that person to stop right here.)

The Clintons Are Here to Stay

August 15, 2008

By Toby Harnden

Get used to it. They are not going away. Anyone who thought that Barack Obama had sent Hillary Clinton back to the Senate to atone for her campaign’s sins or banished her husband, baying at the moon, into the wilderness was deluded.

Denver shows every sign of being the Clinton show. Hillary has a prime-time convention slot on the Tuesday. Bill speaks on Wednesday, stealing the thunder of Senator Obama’s veep pick. And now that Obama has caved into her demand for a roll call vote, Hillary will be center stage again on Thursday. So much for turning the page.

Fuelled by an unholy brew of victimhood and entitlement, Clinton’s supporters threaten to steal the show at the convention. Don’t be fooled by the sweetness-and-light joint statement released by the two campaigns. According to one member of Clinton’s camp, Obama’s “elbow was twisted”. Any future negotiations with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran will probably seem like a picnic.

SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Anyone Remember Thomas Paine?

NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T WANT IMPEACHMENT

By: Devvy
August 15, 2008

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Those were the words spoken by Bill O’Reilly on July 30, 2008. I happened to catch the segment while in my hotel room. According to Bill O’Reilly, “normal people” don’t want President Bush impeached. Perhaps one must define ‘normal’ in Bill’s world? (Didn’t we do that with the other Bill and the definition what is is?) I guess O’Reilly considers phone sex with a subordinate employee normal since it appears he got caught on tape. In a 2004 column, Jonna Spilbor, wrote on FindLaw: “Mackris’s complaint details O’Reilly’s alleged soliloquies – complete with “ums” and pauses. It seems likely, for this reason, that Mackris must have somehow recorded O’Reilly’s ramblings.” Spilbor then says Mackris (plaintiff) could have put a stop to it by just hanging up the phone. True, but, in the end, it is O’Reilly who made the phone calls full of very explicit sex talk. Had it truly been an extortion attempt, would O’Reilly pay in the $6 million dollar range out of his own pocket (plus big, fat attorney’s fees) to settle or was he terrified the tapes would be played in court if it went to trial? As O’Reilly advises: fair and balanced, you decide.

Dan Rather announces Giuliani has “flight data recorder” from WTC

Dan Rather announces Giuliani has “flight data recorder” from WTC

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Prison Planet
August 15, 2008

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Friday, Aug 15, 2008

Another on-air oddity from Dan Rather:

(Article continues below)Observations:

- Rather’s language suggests he has knowledge of a news clip in custody of CBS in which Giuliani “holds up” what he claims is a “flight data recorder” from the WTC wreckage.

- Rather introduces this clip, but immediately a BBC-style “technical problem” prevents its being aired.

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

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Introduction — AMERICAN CALIGULA (47,195 bytes) 1 — THE HOUSE OF BUSH: BORN IN A BANK (33,914 bytes) 2 — THE HITLER PROJECT (55,321 bytes) 3 — RACE HYGIENE: THREE BUSH FAMILY ALLIANCES (51,987 bytes) 4 — THE CENTER OF POWER IS IN WASHINGTON (51,699 bytes)

Russia’s Payback

Christian Science Monitor
August 15, 2008

Russia’s Payback

NATO disrespected Russia for too long. Now the Alliance must regroup.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

Boston – Poke a bear often enough and you’re likely to get bitten. As the crisis over Georgia continues, this describes where the West finds itself today in its relations with Russia.

Amid conflicting reports of Russia’s commitment to a cease-fire, one thing is clear: Moscow scored a crushing geopolitical victory this week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that the US must choose between a “virtual project” with Georgia, or a real partnership with Russia.

After days of evident disarray, only now is the West cobbling together a response: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Georgia in a symbolic show of support, US Air Force cargo jets are delivering small amounts of humanitarian aid, and NATO ministers will meet Tuesday to consider the crisis. When they do, they should remember how we got to this point.

The Problem Of ‘Forced Intimacy’ And Gays In The Military

Chicago Tribune
August 14, 2008

The Problem Of ‘Forced Intimacy’ And Gays In The Military

By Elaine Donnelly

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered an end to racial segregation in the military. That historic mandate advanced civil rights, but the primary purpose was military necessity. Sixty years later, activists trying to claim the “civil rights” mantle are demanding repeal of the 1993 law that says homosexuals are not eligible to serve in the military. What would happen if they were successful?

First, consider what the law actually says. In 1993, President Bill Clinton proposed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which sought to accommodate homosexuals in the military if they did not say they were homosexual. Congress considered Clinton’s concept, but rejected it as unworkable. Instead, members chose to codify and confirm language nearly identical to Defense Department regulations in place since 1981.