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POPSSenator Leahy: Emails don't just disappear! Hmm...Leahy kind of makes a good point. These emails, which happened to be on a topic that is highly controversial, sent over a private email system that shouldn't have been being used, just totally disappeared. How about that?
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POPSCIA: Operation CHAOS. Provoke deaths among rivals??? # Send articles to newspapers showing their depravity. # Use narcotics and free sex for entrapment. # Have members arrested on marijuana charges. # Use disinformation to confuse and disrupt. # Provoke target groups into rivalries that resulted in deaths.
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POPSWe're the Kids of America and We Ain't All Right In the Common Core survey, nearly 20 percent of respondents did not know who the U.S. fought in World War II. Eleven percent thought that Dwight Eisenhower was the president forced from office by the Watergate scandal. Another 11 percent thought it was Harry Truman. We’ve got work to do.
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POPS1972 Nixon Re-election,and 20 year old Karl Rove.
" "Bush’s political style, his attitudes toward executive power, and his contempt for democratic procedures — it has been clear for many years now that his real role model is Nixon. The resemblances could fill a magazine article as long as Keller’s. Both Bush and Nixon, resentful of the supposed cultural dominance of liberals, perfected a conservative populism that vilifies academics, journalists, bureaucrats and other professionals as out-of-touch elites. Both men, hostile to the news media, rigidly prescribed the messages that their staffers could take to the press. Both vaunted secrecy, restricted access to information, and politicized areas of the government once deemed the province of non-partisan experts. Iraq has generated even more echoes of the Nixon years. In a book review in The New York Times recently, Michiko Kakutani said it was hard to read Robert Dallek’s new tome, “Nixon and Kissinger” without regarding it “as a kind of parable about the presidency of George W.
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POPSAlberto Gonzales: Bush's Yes Man! No wonder Bush stands so steadfastly behind his AG. The guy just can't say no to his boss. This intertwining of the political with the running of the Justice Department has gone on in other administrations, both Republican and Democrat. But I think it's being carried to a fine art by this president. They leave no stone unturned to politicize where they think the law will permit it. And they push the line very far. The Bush administration, under the political influence of Karl Rove (the man who understands ethical behavior much in the same way that Chuck Colson, special counsel to Richard Nixon during the Watergate years, did; If you must run over your grandmother to get what you want, then go ahead and leave her for dead) will stoop to any depths to get what it wants.
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POPSNixon Thought Thompson Was Dumb Richard Nixon was very unhappy with the choice of Fred Thompson as minority counsel during the Watergate hearings because he thought he wasn't too bright to put it politely. It should be interesting to see how this guy actually fairs once he finally decides to enter the race. My bet is that he gets knocked out very early.
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POPSEnd Of An Error "Indeed, it remains to be seen whether America's experience with the almost stridently anti-intellectual Bush, will have led it to discover that choosing a president based on how well a candidate registers on the "who would I rather have a beer with" scale, is a dangerously low standard indeed."
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POPSGingrich warns Republicans of "catastrophic election" Time for a fresh start. May I suggest these sure-fire strategies: TAX CUTS! Blame BIG GUBMINT. Pitch TRICKLE DOWN. How 'bout that WAR ON TARA? How 'bout WE WON'T DO ANYTHING ON HEALTHCARE? Or WE WON'T TALK ABOUT RACE. If those don't bring us to our senses, bring out the deep stuff: WRIGHT! ELITIST! SOCIALIZED MEDICINE! LIBBRUL! Oh my, he's right. All the milk's gone sour.
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POPSBush Worse Than Nixon-Bernstein Bernstein rightfully expresses that Bush has done far more harm to the country and the world than Nixon. As the old bumper sticker says "Nobody died at Watergate." This administration has trampled over our constitution in the most dangerous and murderous way. His lies have cost hundreds of thousands of deaths, not the least being over 3,00, thus far, of our youngest and finest men and women. Of those who serve and did not die, many of them are without one or more limbs, lost their sight and hearing, or suffered permanent brain damage. All in the name of neo-Conservatism of the most militaristic kind. I am grateful that Jay Rockefeller is finally re-opening the hearings of how the White House manipulated the intelligence leading up to the Iraq invasion. Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman, first postponed the investigation until after the 2004 election and then dropped it altogether. This could be the equivalent of the Nixon tapes in revelations.
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POPSWexler: Cheney impeachment 'far stronger than Watergate.' The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unneccesary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings.
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POPSUnabashadly Unprincipled "Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Obama. After all, this is a press corps that heard his grandiloquent Philadelphia speech — designed to rationalize why “I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother” — then wiped away a tear and hailed him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. Three months later, with Wright disowned, grandma embraced and the great “race speech” now inoperative, not a word of reconsideration is heard from his media acolytes." "Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out." "When it’s time to throw campaign finance reform, telecom accountability, NAFTA renegotiation or Jeremiah Wright overboard, Obama is not sentimental. He does not hesitate. He tosses lustily." Why, the man even tossed his own grandmother overboard
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POPSMcCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Sideby
keeth Yesterday 4:48 PM Now, I'm not saying that it's wrong to ask questions about Obama's relationship, such as it was, with Bill Ayers. Or with Tony Rezko or with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Just as it wouldn't be inappropriate to raise questions about McCain's association with G. Gordon Liddy, the convicted Watergate burglar whose colorful history includes telling listeners to his radio show in 1994 to shoot federal agents in the head. When McCain went on Liddy's radio show in November 2007, he told Liddy, "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family... It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great." The candidates' associations with these people, and their responses to questions about them, give you a view into their judgment. But at a time of great economic uncertainty -- so uncertain that the smartest people in the world are scratching their heads about what to do -- whi
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POPSAnother Watergate? Unbelievable! Three different members of the Bush State Department bust into the passport files on Barack Obama, and we are expected to believe it was in error, or merely curiosity. The sad thing is that even Hillary Clinton's campaign has some explaining to do, as one of the people who resigned over this incident was President Clinton's ambassador to Paraguay. This campaign is just getting dirtier and dirtier. And hell, this is only the primary. I'm already getting sick over thinking what the fall will bring.
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POPSThe Real-Life '24' "We are once again distracted and unprepared while the Taliban and bin Laden’s minions multiply in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This, no less than the defiling of the Constitution, is the legacy of an administration that not merely rationalized the immorality of torture but shackled our national security to the absurdity that torture could easily fix the terrorist threat. That’s why the Bush White House’s corruption in the end surpasses Nixon’s. We can no longer take cold comfort in the Watergate maxim that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This time the crime is worse than the cover-up, and the punishment could rain down on us all."
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