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among the rightwingers. Daily the news carried more and more revelations.
Remember also that the televised hearings were going out to a poipulace that had been relatively innocent, in the dark and in denial about just how *dirty* politics was!
I am looking at my "Watergate tablecloth" right now. I got it out when I heard about Bush rolling in lawyers. It is a berautiful 4' X 4' lacy tatted creation of white frothy thread. My grandmother sat, day after day, listening in dawning horror and fury to the hearings and she tatted and tatted and tatted. "I *had* to do something with my hands! They were raw from it, but if I didn't have that thing, I'd have gone crazy!". When I die, it will go to my grandchildren with a note on the history of it.
Watergate was the event that wakened two or three generations of Americans. It was the end of trusting the government or authority in general. If the assassination of John F. Kennedy was the alarm clock going off, then Watergate was the snooze alarm, set on a loud rock station... nobody was asleep after that. The hippies had been right... I think the codicil to it all was McNamara's admission, years later, that he had been wrong not to insist on the end of the Vietnam War.
The comparison ends, there, however... THIS administration plays a HELL of a lot dirtier than Nixon's fortuitously acronymed Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) ever did. Tapes? You can damn BET that if any exist, they are *gone* by now... or soon will be! Papers, ditto. Any hope of reconstructing the "dirty tricks" of this bunch had better rest on armor plated, triple guarded, seriously pissed off eye witnesses who are fearless and willing to sing like canaries!
Which brings me to a question...
There is NOT a doubt in my mind that SOMEONE (or several someones) will be dead before this ends. accident, suicide, Plame (excuse me... plane!) crash, infected papercut... there WILL be deaths.
Who do you think will snuff it before this ends? Tenet? Chalabi? Rove? "Rummy? Dubya? who does the Vince Foster Flip? How and when?
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