{"id":178,"date":"2005-12-11T23:50:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-12-11T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T05:50:48","slug":"bush-on-the-constitution-its-just-a-goddamned-piece-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-on-the-constitution-its-just-a-goddamned-piece-of-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush on the Constitution: &#8216;It&#8217;s just a goddamned piece of paper&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillblue.com\/artman\/publish\/article_7779.shtml\">Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: &#8216;It&#8217;s just a <\/p>\n<p>goddamned piece of paper&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could <\/p>\n<p>further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the <\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t give a goddamn,\u201d Bush retorted. \u201cI\u2019m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. <\/p>\n<p>President,\u201d one aide in the meeting said. \u201cThere is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cStop throwing the Constitution in my face,\u201d Bush screamed back. \u201cIt\u2019s just a goddamned piece of paper!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve <\/p>\n<p>talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the <\/p>\n<p>Constitution \u201ca goddamned piece of paper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: &#8216;It&#8217;s just a goddamned piece of paper&#8217; 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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-on-the-constitution-its-just-a-goddamned-piece-of-paper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush on the Constitution: &#8216;It&#8217;s just a goddamned piece of paper&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}