Nixon

He was-- but "traitor" is a more appropriate descriptionWriting for Common Dreams, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman assert what many people long suspected.

Apportioning blame. Listen to my gravamen wherein I indict post-industrial austerity polices as the cause of the May 12 Amtrak Northeast Regional train derailment. But instead our media will blame the tragedy solely, solely on engineer error and negligence. He was driving the train too fast. That’s it. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Henry K: Remember the last time he picked our next president?by NoahThe New York Observer, a Manhattan-based weekly newspaper, is reporting that Henry Kissinger will be throwing his weight behind the candidacy of Bush Crime Family member Jeb Bush by endorsing his candidacy for presi

Roland and I are spending September watching every episode of Breaking Bad on the wall of his living room. I never watched it before and we just finished sea on one… pretty heavy. Roland says I ain't seen nothing yet. The other thing we're both doing this month is finishing our copies of Rick Perlstein's epic history, The Invisible Bridge.

Nixon may or may not have made a deal with Jerry Ford, but he got a pardon and never faced a trial, let alone a prison sentence. He said what many politicians feel about politicians who get caught breaking the law: "the punishment of resignation is more than adequate for the crime." Our corporate elites couldn't agree more. Accountability is for poor people with no power, but for elites with lots of it.Only 15 senators and 5 congressmen have ever been expelled-- and almost all of them were Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War.

"With the exception of the nightly network news shows, no one on television devoted more airtime to Watergate than talk show host Cavett. From 1972 to 1974, America watched the Watergate scandal unfold on The Dick Cavett Show as Cavett interviewed nearly every major Watergate figure — on both sides of the crisis — including John Ehrlichman, Alexander Haig, G.

When the Watergate scandal started unfolding, the Nixon White House plan of action was to keep responsibility and accountability as far from Nixon as possible. G. Gordon Liddy was certifiably insane and was never going talk and even relished the idea of being tortured so he would be able to stand up to it.

I'm not sure when Rick Perlstein started writing his new book, The Invisible Bridge-- The Fall Of Reagan And The Rise Of Reagan, but I'll guess it was at least a year or two before Boehner came up with his lame-brained idea to sue President Obama. In it, though, is a pretty powerful reminder of just what an imperial presidency was, replete with the kind of overstepping of boundaries of which Boehner is accusing Obama.

Plus more "Quote of the Year" nominees[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]by NoahOne of the greatest anniversaries in our nation’s history will happen this year. Forty years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned! It was either that or certain removal from office via impeachment, and it was bipartisan. That’s how bad it was.

Bosom buddies -- um, not hardlyby KenI don't know about you, but I'm mostly numbed by the prospect of enduring yet another JFK assassination anniversary. It's like we've been through this 50 times already.Don't you hate it when a bunch of clichés and bromides turn out to be true? An event that changed everything. The day America lost its innocence. And so on and on. You can pick at them all.