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WAY WORSE THAN WATERGATE. A few years ago, Michael Barone wrote a column about how conservative presidents are always under attack by us ultra-powerful liberals who refuse to accept their legitimacy. It included a dazzlingly audacious one-line historical reinterpretation of Watergate: "Richard Nixon...unwittingly colluded in the successful attempt to besmirch his administration."
Compare that with what Barone wrote today:
Compare that with what Barone wrote today:
The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration.That sounds a fair bit worse than Watergate. And a whole lot worse than Michael Barone's Watergate.
When a U.S. senator (to wit, Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican) feels free to call a prosecutor at home and hang up on him for resisting political pressure in the course of executing his prosecutorial duties, the line between politics and law enforcement has been so thoroughly violated that it no longer exists. Domenici would not have made that call had either a Democrat or a law-abiding Republican been in the White House. ...
What's going on in Washington is not sufficiently removed from the routine doings of a tawdry Third World dictatorship to give any American comfort.
UPDATE: A fake! See here.
--Mark Schmitt
