Watergate is now a big joke.

[Gothic Sponge]

The scandal that brought down Richard Nixon seems silly in comparison to everything Bush is getting away with today. I hope history is NOT kind to Bush.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Patience

It took two years to bring down Nixon, and it only happened because of a handful of courageous people who were willing to speak out.

[aquart]

2. But it will be much harder this time because.....

The Republicans learned from Nixon. Judges blocked Nixon. The Republicans learned to control the judiciary. Congress investigated Nixon. The Republicans learned to take control of Congress. The media exposed Nixon. The Republicans learned to consolidate and control the media.

It's going to be much harder.

[skylarmae]

4. what are you saying? How are we supposed to do anything?

No presidency, no judiciary, no congress.....What avenues are left that offer remedies of law? Any, or are we past the point of no return.

[NuttyFluffers]

9. ... we are past the point of no return.

such a tempting thing to say. if we haven't passed it, we are definitely toe-ing that line. explains why there's a reason peopel are choosing economic combat against this madness doens't it?

[Terry in Austin]

18. Watergate wasn't just "the good guys winning"

Nixon was a Washington outsider, viewed with contempt and suspicion by the insider cliques. Katherine Graham, consummate DC insider and publisher of the Washington Post, had diminishing patience with his harping on the hostility of the press toward him.

It may have been Nixon's threat to revoke the FCC license of one of her stations that proved to be the last straw, but she put Naval intelligence operative Bob Woodward onto the then-minor Watergate burglary story. Woodward, like the Post, also had close connections to the CIA, which had in for Nixon anyway, as he and Kissinger had done much to limit their influence on foreign policy.

Once the Watergate ball was rolling, it was the Democratic Congress that made impeachment proceedings possible.

[Jim__]

3. I hope there is a history to be not kind to bush

This idiot could push us over the edge.

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[DrWeird]

6. What flavor kool-aid are you drinking?

Let me guess. Grape?

[Vickers]

7. Dude, you picked a perfect name!

Remember how fucking loveably stupid he was? I need to get that new Looney Tunes collection...it has "What's Opera, Doc?" on it!

Anyway, watch out for falling safes, amigo.

[Old and In the Way]

13. Sadly, Mr. Coyote can't spell his name correctly.

Well, not surprising that, with all the phyically hits he incurred trying to catch the Road Runner, he'd have seen his mental faculties diminshed.

[charlie]

8. Here we go again

It's like whack-a-mole around here today.

[HEAVYHEART]

10. hahaha! I love it!

[Old and In the Way]

11. You don't mind if I don't take your threads too seriously , do you

Wile?

[FloridaPat]

14. He could very easily do it if he hasn't ruined us already. That

national debt and his stupid invasion. He has united almost the rest of the world against us. Read some of the economic and money articles going around. We are at the brink of total destruction. All we need to push us over the edge is oil traded in euros or China dumping the US dollar. What kind of economy will be have with oil at $10-$20 a gallon? We import everything. Right now our dollar is about 77cents to the Euro. What do you think all those imports are going to cost when the dollar is 5 cents to the Euro?

[madaboutharry]

15. Yeah, we are serious

"...step away from the political races for a time." Are you saying that the Democrats should allow Republicans to run unopposed? You sound very uninformed.

[Minstrel Boy]

16. An Acme Brand Tombstone

Beep Beep.

[AuntPatsy]

12. Words to ponder...

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[fujiyama]

17. It really looks petty in comparison

but meanwhile Peter Jennings asks Clinton what he feels about some RW hack "historians" putting him on a "morality" list behind Nixon.

Hmmm, I see why the Canadians really wouldn't want him back. Oh well, if I go there atleast I don't have to see him.