Quotes
and the man George W. Bush
By
Bill Richer
The
following four quotes and one story by George W. Bush
on the dates shown were seen by many at the time as being
satirical. Today we see the United States of America 6
years after the reign of George W Bush and must reflect on his
quotes.
1)"If
this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just
so
long as I'm the dictator." --George W. Bush, Washington,
D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
2)"The
legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's
job to interpret law." --George W. Bush, Austin, Texas,
Nov. 22, 2000
3)"America
better beware of a
candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win
points." --George W. Bush, aboard his campaign plane, Sept.
18, 2000
4)"I'm
the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need
to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about
being president." —George W. Bush, as quoted in Bob
Woodward's "Bush at War" 1
5)“By
Cooper's count, George W. Bush issued 23 signing statements in
2001; 34 statements in 2002, raising 168 constitutional
objections; 27 statements in 2003, raising 142
constitutional challenges, and 23 statements in 2004, raising
175 constitutional criticisms. In total, during his first term
Bush raised a remarkable 505 constitutional challenges to
various provisions of legislation that became law.
That
number may be approaching 600 challenges by now. Yet Bush has
not vetoed a single bill, notwithstanding all these claims, in
his own signing statements, that they are unconstitutional
insofar as they relate to him.
Bush
has quietly been using these statements to bolster presidential
powers. It is a calculated, systematic scheme that has gone
largely unnoticed (even though these statements are published in
the Weekly Compilation of Presidential
Documents) until recently….” 2
In the first quote he seems to joke about being a dictator but
what has he become after six years? Yes, a dictator!
The Congress has relinquished its power to legislate and seems
to have given full power to the executive branch. Mr.
Gonzales, the Attorney General and the Congress seem ready to do
everything to give President Bush whatever he wants. Even
the Supreme Court who are supposed to be judging whether laws
are constitutional or not seemed to have voted
unconstitutionally on a recent vote about property rights.
Another example of President Bush’s dictatorship is a signing
a North American Union Agreement without conferring with
American people or the Congress. This agreement is main
reason why President Bush has failed in his duty to protect
Americans from foreign invaders! It is also the reason why
Americans are suffering tremendously from unemployment, lack of
hospitals, low pay, high cost of medical insurance and lack of
medical insurance.
We see other examples of one man rule with these signing
statements and his spying on Americans on internet and
wiretapping. All these items go against our Constitution
and Bill of Rights. He also just about held a fire under
the Congress to reinstate the unconstitutional Patriot act!
Every day with the Bush Administration Cabal brings new wonders!
You can also see that Bush said that stretching reality was not
right! Yet how often have
we heard lie after lie from him and his administration!
Weapons of Mass Destruction being a big lie to get us in Iraq!
There are also lies on 911 and the American people have
never had such a secretive and reckless president in all of
United States history! Remember he said he was the
commander and he didn’t have to explain himself! This is
just pure arrogance and ignorance of the Constitution!
So what does George W. Bush say about our Constitution?
Read the
following:
6)
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more
onerous provisions of the Patriot 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!"
3
To him it’s just a Goddamn piece of paper. The founding
fathers wrote up this piece of paper very carefully so that
freedom and justice would reign in this country! The
ignorance and
arrogance of George W. Bush towards our Constitution shows he
doesn’t care about our way of life. He has done
everything in his reign for the Banks and Corporations and
nothing for the American people. He also shows a disdain
for all those who have fought for this country in current and
past wars and also a disdain for our Founding Fathers who were
Christian. Bush hasn’t the foggiest of what a Christian
is and if he continues on this road to destruction it will not
be the Constitution that will be damned but him and his cabal.
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To
those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath!
To
those who have not and believe in the
Constitution,
Take
a similar Oath now to the Constitution!
Remember
that those who make laws contrary to the Constitution,
Those
who enforce laws contrary to the Constitution,
And
those who give orders contrary to the Constitution,
Have
become domestic enemies
of the Constitution!
It
doesn't take a Judge or a lawyer to know the difference!
"All
laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and
void." Marbury vs. Madison
"I
DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC; THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE
SAME; AND THAT I WILL OBEY THE (CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL)
ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE
(CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL) ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED
OVER ME, ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF
MILITARY JUSTICE. SO HELP ME GOD."
Teddy's
Answer to Diversity!
There
is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one
absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of
preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at
all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling
nationalities.
—
Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Knights of Columbus, 1915,
New
York
Teddy's
Answer to Bush!
To
announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or
that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not
only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public.
—
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy's
Answer to Bush & Congress
"We
cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect
our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much
a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the
public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep
him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his
capacity." —
Theodore Roosevelt
