Poteat: GOP faction flirting with disaster “Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
Oct. 2, 2013 - The Staunton News Leader
The Idiocy of the Shutdown, in 3 Acts: Map, Thought Experiment, Speech Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.Thus spake a previous Republican president.
Oct. 1, 2013 - The Atlantic
Ron Gardenhire in MLB.com We're 1-0 now against the Yankees in our one game,Gardenhire said. "We'll construe the numbers any way we want to now."
President Bush in Socialist Worker Online The executive branch shall construe [the law] in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President......as Commander in Chief,Bush wrote.
Charlie Crist in MiamiHerald.com Judge Sotomayor is worthy of respect for her many accomplishments and her remarkable story of success,Crist said. "However, I have strong concerns that Judge Sotomayor would not strictly and objectively construe the constitution."