Buck Up, You Lefties! There's reason for hope

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While history never repeats itself in quite the same way, the possibility that Bush could wind up disgraced looms larger today than it did for Nixon in the winter of 1972. Back then, the Watergate burglars were still being depicted as a "rogue" operation, and no one believed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who doggedly uncovered the crimes that eventually brought down a president. Similar scandals are simmering on the back burner at the Bush White House: at least three, at last count. Any one of them could lead to big trouble for this administration, which had better start battening down the hatches just as soon as the last of the champagne is poured.

While the issue has largely been lost sight of on account of special prosecutor Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald's bulldoggish tactics – threatening to jail reporters for refusing to divulge their sources – his probe into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by Washington neocons eager to discredit her husband, diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, is likely to reach into the vice president's office – and, from there, insinuate its way into the White House. It's the cover-up, not the crime, that gets them every time…

A related investigation into the basis of the infamous "16 words" of the president's 2002 State of the Union address is also percolating, and this should be even more interesting – and potentially damaging to the administration. Because this probes into the question of how so much blatantly false information made its way into the White House and onto the president's desk – including an outright forgery that was so crude it took the IAEA's scientists a matter of minutes with Google to debunk it.

Yet another looming legal case is the upcoming trial of neocon ideologue Larry Franklin, a specialist on Iran working in Douglas Feith's Pentagon policy shop, who was caught red-handed turning over highly sensitive top secret documents to two Israeli government officials and two top employees of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. In a fascinating piece on the sociology of the neoconservative movement, social anthropologist Janine R. Wedel characterizes them as an "informal" faction:

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We don't have a Woodward and Bernstein today. I mean we have them. But we don't have any journalists with those guts today. The media was not owned by the Corporations in the 70's.

Democrats were the congressional majority then. So, we don't have the media, we don't have congressional support, our democratic "leaders" aren't speaking out for us. There is still hope; that hope lies with "we, the people".

potential damaging scandals. Not any forward motion on any of these as yet. I'm doubtful that anything will come of it. America has been desensitized to scandal.

handling re-election.

Look at his too statements so far 'I'm gonna give Kerry time' to deal with his victory, and 'I'll reach out to people who agree with me'. He doesn't have what it takes to keep it together under the circumstances of not actually being hated anymore. If the election stands it will be an interesting ride.

I am 78 years old, and this is the first time I have been frightened of a U.S. President.. What makes me fear him, is his intelligence is so low, that he will do any thing and not give it a second thought.What I am trying to say I think he could just be plain menstruated.

PLEASE!!! Nixon had checks and balances, Nixon had to face solid Democratic majorites in the House and Senate. Dems didn't feel like the McGovern loss was the end of the world, because they had the house and Senate and many were glad that McGovern did not win. And as others reported the media today is not the one of 72. Bush has no checks and balances other than what one poster called "we the people"
Thats it, sorry. But the rest of the world outside the US and besides, Tony Blair hates him and it appears they are at work on something.