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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:35 AM
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"I think she ought to read the Constitution again." - Rep. Tom DeLay...
Tom DeLay Bonus Quote of the Day; quoted by the Dallas Morning News, in response to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s admonishment of legislators for their attacks on the judiciary.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-texwatch_19nat.ART.State.Edition1.9836e5.html

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/03/19/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html
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TAPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:39 AM
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1. What, they've already changed it so much
(without any of us knowing, of course) that she needs to read it again? :)
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Punkingal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:39 AM
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2. As if the constitution means anything to him...
But it's kinda nice he is talking about it.....maybe more people will pay attention to what she said.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:41 AM
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3. For Tom DeLay the Constitution is just a piece of paper to wipe his ...
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 07:44 AM by Burried News
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Untermonkey Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:48 AM
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4. If more Americans read and understood the Constitution...
We wouldn't be in the mess we're in today.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:58 AM
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10. Highly recommended purchase for all
In hard bound, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. 110 pages for $4.95, a Barnes and Noble publication. Easily readable and accessible. Includes a handy dandy chronology of events surrounding those documents.
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Untermonkey Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:06 AM
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12. Thanks for the tipper.
I'm gonna order one today.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:19 AM
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13. Introduction by R. B. Bernstein
BG - History
ISBN 0-7607-2833-X

Enjoy.
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:26 AM
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18. BOSSHOG thanks for the info - been wanting a copy....nt
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:19 AM
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17. From one American "Untermensch," to one Untermonkey...
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 09:48 AM by Hubert Flottz
If the People in Washington, who voted yes on the "Patriot Act," would have ever read the Constitution and understood it, they would have voted NO! It's the mis-----leaders in our Federal Government who have studied wrong! About 75% of the people, "Untermensch," know the "Master Race,"(GOP) is full of Bushit and up to zero good, as far as, upholding the law of the land. The GOP(Crony Club GOPers)have NOTHING but contempt, for the Constitution and the rule of law. They ALL think that, Laws were made only for the "Untermensch"(You and I)to obey and to abide by and that the "Master Race,"(the politicians and their corporate masters)(the "Haves" and the "Have Mores")are exempt from any kind of accountability, to, we the "Untermensch,"(people)or our legal system.

YOU CAN'T HAVE A CIVILIZED DEMOCRACY, WITHOUT LAW AND ORDER.(not a REAL democracy)

So many critical, constitutional, items changing since 9/11, means that the terrorists are winning...They are able to totally disrupt the Constitution. What MORE could they have EVER hoped and Dreamed of doing? The USSR couldn't do it, Germany couldn't do it, the Japanese couldn't do it, but in five years the GOP and the terrorists have undermined our rule of law and the Constitution, utterly and completely. Bush and friends have helped the terrorists disrupt our entire legal system.

We never needed to torture anyone before 9/11. We never needed to do away with our 230 year old Constitution before. We are losing! LOSING the AMERICA that the founding fathers made possible with their sweat and blood. Losing the America that every American soldier in every war, since 1776, has fought and died for. The terrorists and their friends the neocons, have changed America from a democracy into a police state right before our eyes and WE, LET THEM DO IT! We let them make the proudest, hardest working, most productive people on the planet into their "Untermensch".(Second Class Citizens)(Sub Humans)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch

Edit...Tom's and the terrorist's other enablers have distorted the Constitution so much it is almost worthless as far as PROTECTING the American Citizen, from the same brutality we witnessed in those horrid photos of Abu Ghraib! I hope Tom and his friends and neocon enablers, of the fanatics overseas, are PROUD of their part in the cheapening and ruination, of our country's legal and moral safeguards in the Constitution for us and the people around the world!
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:49 AM
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5. Maybe DeLay should read it for the first time? n/t
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:51 AM
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6. ppfftt, there'ya go..
:rofl:
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:52 AM
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7. Unmitigated arrogance!
A Class A Blowhard. This man has no idea of the meaning of the word humility.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:53 AM
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8. She has devoted her life to the law- what an arrogant insult from DeLay.
He bugs me.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:57 AM
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9. this from a guy that kills bugs for a living...
:thumbsdown:
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foreverdem Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:02 AM
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11. He probably needs it explained
That dumbass is probably hoping she can explain it to him.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:25 AM
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14. If the gov. can remove protesters to special places we should
worry. And are they wiretapping on people who do not like the war? All these things should send up flags to people. Along with what the ex-judge said.Maybe DeLay does not understand it?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:31 AM
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15. Says the guy who could be tried for bribery, a "higher crime"
than a blowjob . . .
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:34 AM
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16. Very honest answer. They really do have a different interpretation
of the Constitution, and because they've been allowed to operate freely with that interpretation, it just reinforces what they think.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 10:06 AM
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20. i think that right, think it's further a function of believing your own...
press that your propagandist puts out on your behalf, as well as your ravings to your dead political heroes when you walk the halls of a stolen WH, as a for instance, in the middle of the night...well, not "you", but you know who i mean :hi:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:55 AM
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19. K&R...
DeLay is a POS! A Common Criminal! How could anyone but another criminal vote for a pig like that?
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