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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]wordpix
(18,652 posts)149. I know, white collar crooks like Nixon make off with the loot
even if they're disgraced, it's off to the Bahamas with Bebe Robozo (can't really remember name) to retire in comfort for the rest of your life.
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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
OP
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