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In reply to the discussion: If you are over 60, or studied Watergate at length...Does this feel like Watergate ? [View all]underpants
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If you are over 60, or studied Watergate at length...Does this feel like Watergate ? [View all]
Stuart G
Mar 2017
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His supporters are hoping there is no action, that's for sure yeoman6987.
Kingofalldems
Mar 2017
#189
I lived in a Repub area but the kids I went to HS with either hated Nixon or shut up.
kerry-is-my-prez
Mar 2017
#126
What you said. Yes. Much worse crimes and much more complicit and partisan congress.
Amaryllis
Mar 2017
#131
Part of me feels like Watergate -- although a bigger crime. Other part hopes it's not Fitzmas.
Hoyt
Mar 2017
#11
The reason Butterfield's revelation was so explosive is that, before that, John Dean
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2017
#53
Yes, it is bigger, but that wasn't the question. Does it FEEL LIKE IT yet? I maintian no.
WinkyDink
Mar 2017
#127
+1, on the other hand the Ruskies have something on the KGOP leadership I believe... they're lookin
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#136
That's an intriguing possibility. But would that end any criminal investigations?
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#41
He would probably be pardoned. The Repubs won't want investigations and trials goung on forever.
Alice11111
Mar 2017
#99
It's worse. For one thing the House & Senate are so damn polarized, that I haven't seen signs...
Hekate
Mar 2017
#44
I'm 64 and feel it's worse. Look on faces of Sen Feinstein and Grassely say much worse
IADEMO2004
Mar 2017
#52
Sam Ervin engendered a lot more confidence and gravitas than Grassley or Nunce. n/t
CincyDem
Mar 2017
#50
I watched it all too and while the seriousness of it feels similar, Watergate was all in-house . The
OregonBlue
Mar 2017
#72
No. During Watergate, Rs wanted to get out the truth. Not true with today's Rs.
stopbush
Mar 2017
#73
We have a POTUS who may very well be extorted by or a tool of a foreign country
underpants
Mar 2017
#74
No. This is like the Strait of Hormuz suddenly springs open, flooding Eden
McCamy Taylor
Mar 2017
#76
Finally, someone on this thread posts what I think is the biggest difference...
llmart
Mar 2017
#152
No. By the summer of 1973, I felt Nixon would go down because of the Democratic Congress.
John1956PA
Mar 2017
#106
Watergate on speed. Except this is much, much worse. It took forever to get Nixon......
kerry-is-my-prez
Mar 2017
#118
Not yet. The Republicans are still very dug in. (I watched the Watergate Hearings daily.)
WinkyDink
Mar 2017
#125
I was only 10 but I watched the hearings with RAPT attention and read ATPM as soon as it was out
lostnfound
Mar 2017
#132
Worse. But what is familiar is having to go through an election AFTER the first signs
pnwmom
Mar 2017
#135
As a 67-year-old, this sure as hells seems like Watergate, as I have said to others today.
Akamai
Mar 2017
#141
This is worse - Watergate was totally domestic and Nixon was essentially sane compared...
George II
Mar 2017
#144
Yes. To indict underlings to set them up to flip on their bosses to avoid jail time is similar.
ancianita
Mar 2017
#145
No. That we had a criminal president was clear, and the "show" felt unprecedented.
fleabiscuit
Mar 2017
#147
This is already a much more complex story that involves a lot more characters and
mobeau69
Mar 2017
#153
no, because Congressional Republican majority keeps extensive hearings from being held. . .
Stargleamer
Mar 2017
#154
Are you watching MSNBC tonight? John Dean was on and said this is almost exactly like
napi21
Mar 2017
#156
Break-in: 06/17/1972; Sat. Night Massacre: 10/08/1973; Resignation: 08/08/1974; Pardon 09/08/1974
John1956PA
Mar 2017
#193
Trump era is like a Watergate, Cold War intrigue , and a rising third reich era trifecta
lunasun
Mar 2017
#175
I was in college during Watergate. I must say this seems 1000 times worse.
southerncrone
Mar 2017
#183
John Dean, today mentioned that Sean Spicer was doing a Cover-up by diminishing the roles of
riversedge
Mar 2017
#187