Posted on 05/16/2007 8:04:07 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
President Bush urged the Senate Tuesday to act on the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention during this session of Congress and won swift backing from two influential Republican senators.
Republican Sens. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Ted Stevens of Alaska echoed Bush’s call for ratification of the accord (Treaty Doc 103-39), which the Foreign Relations Committee approved unanimously in February 2004, under Lugar’s chairmanship.
The Bush administration supported the treaty, but the accord never reached the Senate floor due to opposition from conservatives concerned it would surrender U.S. sovereignty. Current Foreign Relations Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware said last week that the only way action would occur on the treaty this Congress would be if the administration pressed for it.
The international pact, which took effect in 1994 after ratification by 60 countries, set up a legal system to govern all uses of the oceans, including navigation, research, pollution and seabed mining...
Bush said in his statement that participation in the treaty would secure U.S. sovereign rights over extensive marine areas, including valuable natural resources...
In an “essay,” Lugar said the United States had been “a free rider” on the treaty for too long, and by embracing it could “help counter the prejudices that America is an unreliable partner or a threat to world order.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at public.cq.com ...
“Maybe he wants to outshine Benedict Arnold in the history books to come in The New World Order.”
Do you recall the smirk on his daddys face when Gulf War I ended and his speech about it included “This is the New World Order”?
“I just can’t figure out why this man is so desperate to sell out his country before his term is up. Simply mind boggling.”
No, it is not mind-boggling if you see him for what he has been and is. He is the Republicans’ Jimmy Carter.
Back in December 2005, this moronic traitor was quoted as saying that the Constitution was just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
What is mind-boggling to me is that he is considered some kind of sacred god by the bushbots.
>Do you recall the smirk on his daddy’s face when Gult War I ended and his speech about it included “This is the New World Order”?<
I do, and immediately went into full time work on Pat Buchanan’s campaign.
LOST ping!
My copy of the US Constitution says that it takes two-thirds of the US Senate to ratify a Treaty submitted by the President.
Just to be sure, what does your copy say?
dvwjr
I rec’d YESTERDAY! a plea from the GOP for money. They were kind enough to pay return postage. This issue is one of top items to be my letter back, along with a “zero peso” bit of non-currency.
He doesn't work for us, and would never have become President if he did. No one else will, either - ever again - the Powers That Be will never allow another Reagan anywhere near the White House.
Bush hasn't done too badly by the average American, considering who he is obligated to answer to.
Then you haven't read it. It says two thirds of Senators present, not two thirds of the Senate.
This article has a discussion of Alexander Hamilton's defense of the Constitution's poison pill.
My copy of the Constitution is the modern abridged version.
You are right, the original Constitution requires two-thirds of those present in the senate to concur. This might be as small a number as 34 yes votes to ratify.
The quote about the Constitution (”goddamned piece of paper”) is shocking. Can you cite us a source on that so we can look it up?
I can believe (just barely) that Bush said this, but it would be good to actually know.
It's been done with any record of a quorum. See the article referenced in the post above.
Bush is a traitor. He should be tried and sentenced accordingly!
This legislation is a danger to our sovereignty, and to Americans in general. We will be subjects to the UN! Since the UN is made up of many Muslim countries, we will be giving them control over us! Of course, Bush is a Muslim @ss kisser, so he thinks that's just fine!!! It's time for him to go!!
I have to agree with that.
I’ve said it before....it’s time for a RINO hunt. Cull the herd, people.
The Rant
Bush on the Constitution: “Just a goddamned piece of paper”
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 06:39
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!”
I’ve heard from two White House sources who claim they heard from others present in the meeting that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
The record shows the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democratic, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine - in the end - if something is legal or right.
Every federal official - including the President - who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend” the Constitution of the United States.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”
“”Oh, how I hate the phrase we have-a ‘living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete’s sake.”
As a judge, Scalia says, “I don’t have to prove that it’s perfect; I just have to prove that it’s better than anything else.”
President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years - a record for any modern President, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.
“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don’t think that it’s a one-way street.”
And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.
But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
(Updated September 3, 2006)
© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue
I don’t trust any source who uses the word “shit” in this way, or who refers to the administration as “power-mad despots.” The alleged quotes sound highly exaggerated, or just made-up. I believe Capitol Hill Blue is a liberal publication.
California Patriot
My post #35 to you should be e-mailed far and wide. And pay careful attention to what Mr. Jeeves wrote in post #27. You have no idea the truth he said in those 3 sentences. This is more than just serious.
Mr. Jeeves wrote:
“He doesn’t work for us, and would never have become President if he did. No one else will, either - ever again - the Powers That Be will never allow another Reagan anywhere near the White House.
“Bush hasn’t done too badly by the average American, considering who he is obligated to answer to.”
Any American who didn’t figure this out a long time ago, is dead.
Maybe so, elPresidente Booosh, but there are ways to remedy that and judging from public outrage, I'm sure some patriots will come up with creative ways to do that too. After all, WE ARE AMERICANS!! You shouldn't have underestimated the will of the American people!
To believe it or not to believe is your choice.
I distinctly remember what a potty mouth Bush had when he was running for president. Therefore, I do believe he continues to use such words but not for the general public to hear.
But that is getting into a different subject. He is subjugating our constitution every chance he gets. Hence, for him the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
I don’t believe he’s subjugating the Constitution at all. He’s made some huge mistakes, but the Patriot Act isn’t one of them. You’re right, though, that Bush has a snarky side, a punk side. Probably one reason why he’s so careful to say not much in public. It’s been speculated that this is related to the fact that he’s a former alcoholic, or at least a former problem drinker. Such people supposedly have to bite their tongues more than most of us.
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