So about this impeachment thing...

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

So it seems that it's no longer taboo to mention this in the MSM, which is... interesting.

However, there are a couple of things that we should keep in mind:

A lot of Bush's people used to be Nixon's people. Or Ford's people. Or even Nixon and Ford's people's people. They know watergate in their blood. A lot of these geniuses see Watergate as a failure not of Nixon and his administration for committing the impeachable offenses in the first place, but as a failure of duty to the President. Who obviously, in their minds, had done nothing wrong. A lot of what happens in the next few months will depend on how well they learned that "lesson," and how they implemented changes based on what they learned.

I expect that it will be very, very difficult to pin any of this directly on Bush. And I'm talking more generally about the whole situation, including the FBI Patriot Act thing, not just Attorneygate. I think it will be very difficult to get anywhere near Bush on most of these things. Will it get to Karl? Maybe. Gonzo? Toast. But these people seem to have created an absolute Fortress White House, and so far it's proving difficult to penetrate. In the onion of bullshit they've created to protect Bush, we're only pulling back the first couple of layers at the moment.

Watergate... Where do you think Bushco's obsession with loyalty comes from in the first place? It all goes back to Watergate. If everyone is loyal, and people only know what they need to know, then who's left to rat on the Prez?

We know they've thought about this. The question is, what have they done about it?

(Edit: Don't misspell the title of your thread.)

[bryant69]

1. Along with that is the question of Executive Privilege or the Unitary Executive

In a way Watergate can be seen as a simple power struggle between the Congress and the Presidency. This President has gone even further towards pissing on Congress, what with his signing statements and what not. So it makes sense that Congress will eventually move to reign him in.

Bryant
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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Indeed.

However, in the case of Nixon there was tangible proof of specific wrongdoing. The situation is murkier with Bush, at least with respect to the current crop of scandals.

What I was thinking about when I wrote this post was how it got to be that the obstruction of justice article was drafted against Nixon, and how something similar might happen in this case. It's a long way from here to there.