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Kablooie

(18,625 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:17 AM Feb 2017

You know, this feels exactly like the early days of Watergate did.

Except it took months for the Watergate scandal to be linked definitively to the presidents staff.

Today everything moves forward at rocket speed compared to the 1970s and this is no exception.

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You know, this feels exactly like the early days of Watergate did. (Original Post) Kablooie Feb 2017 OP
Kinda does gopiscrap Feb 2017 #1
In the early days of Watergate, it was like a page 10 newspaper story MrPurple Feb 2017 #2
These Republicans can''t carry John Dean's shoes. world wide wally Feb 2017 #4
I remember MFM008 Feb 2017 #3
Kinda colsohlibgal Feb 2017 #5
As I was listening to the evening news I had the thought, TexasProgresive Feb 2017 #6

MrPurple

(985 posts)
2. In the early days of Watergate, it was like a page 10 newspaper story
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:30 AM
Feb 2017

just seemed like some minor burglary that wasn't connected to the President. It wasn't until John Dean refused to perjure himself and told the Watergate committee that Nixon frequently spoke to the bookcases and he suspected they were being recorded, that things really heated up.

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)
4. These Republicans can''t carry John Dean's shoes.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:40 AM
Feb 2017

There isn't a patriotic bone in their collective bodies.
Their entire mantra is money, power, party.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
5. Kinda
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:57 AM
Feb 2017

The key difference is that Nixon was at least qualified to be in that office, this Orange fraud is not. He is a crass fraud and a dangerous joke.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
6. As I was listening to the evening news I had the thought,
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 07:21 AM
Feb 2017

"It's deja vu all over again!"

It just feels so uncomfortably familiar. It would be sweet if the pukes have to toss their own buffoon out of office after what they did to President Clinton. I have always felt that was retribution for Nixon. If Flynn is not guilty of breaking the *Logan act he certainly should get the same punishment as Martha Stewart for lying to federal agents.

* Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

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