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21. K&R

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Mon Aug 20, 2018, 12:18 AM

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NoShit.. [View all] pbmus Aug 2018 OP

Yikes!!! LakeArenal Aug 2018 #1

I remember Watergate well! Heartstrings Aug 2018 #2

+100 Duppers Aug 2018 #3

This is exponentially worse than Watergate... ADX Aug 2018 #4

Agreed! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #12

The GOP backed Nixon too, Nixon bashed the press and he had an enemies list. Hamlette Aug 2018 #5

Not so fast . . . Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2018 #15

I agree. The situation is far more dire because of the spineless Republicans. olegramps Aug 2018 #25

THANK YOU FOR PUSHING BACK SO ACCURATELY ON THAT ERRONEOUS POST. brush Aug 2018 #28

I sure don't remember it that way. I remember thinking why the hell don't the republicans speak out Hamlette Aug 2018 #33

You don't remember Howard Baker asking: "What did the president know and when did he know it?" brush Aug 2018 #35

yes, in June 1973. And what came of it? Nothing. For a year. Hamlette Aug 2018 #36

this was a day or two before he resigned and AFTER the smoking gun tape. Hamlette Aug 2018 #34

It's more than just the leadership. tikka Aug 2018 #6

where as back then we had Senator Howard Baker, a man of true honor yellowdogintexas Aug 2018 #18

In a way it is also better because the corruption is in the wide open, not even being hidden... Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #7

I remember Watergate making me both sad and mad. pazzyanne Aug 2018 #8

Watergate was awful but a misdemeanor TNNurse Aug 2018 #9

Absolutely Yes to All of This! DoctorJoJo Aug 2018 #10

Vodkagate. A much greater impairment to American Democracy than was Watergate Marcuse Aug 2018 #11

I was in my 30s and reading the Washington Post every day. Mickju Aug 2018 #13

Yeah, I get it and mostly agree, but Nixon was sneaky corrupt and had been getting away with it Persondem Aug 2018 #14

agree, the roots of all of this go back to Nixon, definitely yellowdogintexas Aug 2018 #19

+1. Nice thoughts. Thank you. nt Persondem Aug 2018 #31

Yes. There's no comparison, the degrees of danger and corruption. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #16

And on and on... pbmus Aug 2018 #17

Absolutely D_Master81 Aug 2018 #20

K&R Scurrilous Aug 2018 #21

Known this for a Cha Aug 2018 #22

Trump supporters are by far more evil! BlueJac Aug 2018 #23

and back in the 1970s NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #24

It's not only the GOP leadership who are complicit proglib217 Aug 2018 #26

People are forgetting Reagan. Some 28 were convicted and Republicans pardoned many. olegramps Aug 2018 #27

Yes, Iran Contra was an impeachable offense, and Reagan certainly approved it. Nitram Aug 2018 #30

Reagan didn't destroy our alliances, fuck up the environment, attack his AG, LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2018 #32

But the "less competent" bit will be the undoing of Trump. He has boasted of obstruction of justice Nitram Aug 2018 #29