Quote: They did not have three equal and independent branches of government, two of which (legislative and judiciary) were overseeing investigations of the third (executive). We do.
can you really say that the current Republican led Senate would honestly investigate a Republican President?
No.
During the Watergate investigation, the Republicans did step up and question alongside Democrats, investigate and eventually asked the president to resign in light of inevitable impeachment.
Republicans today however, have become so obsessed with personal loyalty that they've forgotten that their first duty is to country, not party or friend. A GOP Congress won't even ask the questions.
The current GOP Congress has shown absolutely no interest in investigating anything since 9/11 because there's no clear way to blame Democrats for it, and they seem to have learned a little bit that inventing blame out of whole cloth on TV doesn't always work in their favor. The only recent televised hearing in which the GOP tried to smear its opponents was the whole oil-for-food thing, where George Galloway mopped the floor with Norm Coleman (R-MN), so they're not eager for more, and they're certainly not willing to investigate the Bush administration.
Fox News and the Screaming Partisans will defend any GOP-sourced misconduct as absolutely right, and any criticism as Unamerican ( for example, Abu Ghraib). The post-Watergate press has treated all such stories as "he said, she said" as long as the conservatives accuse any investigation of being partisan, which is why they accuse every investigation of being partisan.
if the Democrats had any kind of message discipline, they'd be using GOP history to their benefit." The Eisenhower administration was the only GOP administration of the last 85 years that wasn't corrupt or incompetent in the end (the Eisenhower White House was opposed to McCarthy and his tactics BTW) . Harding had Teapot Dome; Hoover couldn't deal with the Great Depression, Nixon and Ford had Watergate, Reagan and Bush had Iran-Contra, and now George W. Bush has Iraq. The Democrats should mention the last two GOP scandals with this one all in one breath: "Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Iraq."
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.
