I IMed a link to a friend earlier today about the news that Karl Rove was, unsurprisingly, more involved than the White House originally admitted in the current US attorney firing scandal. Her response was (more or less): "I wonder if this is what it felt like during Watergate".
I grew up with two highly politically aware parents and am old enough to remember Watergate. I don't remember the story unfolding piece by piece -- I mostly remember odd details like the "Impeach Nixon" buttons -- but I do know exactly where I was the day Nixon resigned, becasue we were on an airplane to Hawaii when it happened, and the captain got onto the intercom to announce the news.
All of which is a long way of saying, I don't know if this is like Watergate, or just another three-day scandal. Even if it is, I doubt we'll have the same outcome. If Gonzales and Rove get booted from their jobs, well, that's at least a step in the right direction. We'll know more next week, maybe, at Senator Schumer's hearings.
Comments (2)
Karl...
Where ARE you?
LOL, from Talkleft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARY9ka2o2J4
Come out, come out, wherever you are...we've got subpoenas...
Dustin
Posted by Caroline | March 15, 2007 9:35 PM
I was a little older when Watergate was going on and it seems this is very much the same. Each day a little more disclosure and each day a realization that yesterday's disclosure was creative at best and outright lies at worst.
Posted by artistry | March 16, 2007 5:53 AM