Showing posts with label President Richard Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Richard Nixon. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2014

Leftists discovered there's no free lunch--and we STILL have enemies

August 08, 2014 CNN Poll , CNN/ORC International 0 Comments
CNN Poll: Trust In Gov't All-Time Low

CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser, Aug. 8, 2014

Washington (CNN) – Four decades after President Richard Nixon resigned, a slight majority of Americans still consider Watergate a very serious matter, a new national survey shows. But how serious depends on when you were born.

The CNN/ORC International poll's release comes one day before the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. With the Watergate scandal escalating, the second-term Republican president had lost much of his political backing, and he faced almost certain impeachment and the prospects of being removed from office by a Democratic-dominated House and Senate.

There's a big generational divide over the significance of the scandal, with a majority of those older than 40 describing Watergate as a very serious problem and those under 40 saying it was just politics.

The poll also indicates that the public's trust in government is at an all-time low.

Just 13% of Americans say the government can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time, with just over three-quarters saying only some of the time and one in 10 saying they never trust the government, according to the poll.

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Lost Lerner Emails Mirror Nixon's 18 1/2 Min Gap --Nixon said he should have burned Watergate tapes. Lesson learned

June 20, 2014 Attorney General Eric Holder , IBD 0 Comments
Lois G. Lerner
By IBD Editorials, Jun. 16, 2014, Investors.com

Scandal: The IRS descends into criminal enterprise, with word of a 26-month gap of lost emails from the very period it was illegally targeting Tea Party groups. Computer crash? Try obstruction of justice.

Just as the claim that President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, inadvertently hit the "erase" button instead of "pause" gave impetus to the drive to impeach Nixon, so too should the IRS announcement that it can't find two years of Lois Lerner's emails lead to a criminal investigation of this administration and creation of a select committee.

In April we wrote, "Lois Lerner Should Go To Jail." We think so now more than ever and also that she shouldn't be the only one to be measured for an orange jumpsuit. As in Watergate, this fish rots from the head.

We are reminded how, during his Arizona State University commencement speech in 2009, President Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree and "joked" that "President (Michael) Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."

The joke was not funny then and is less funny now. It was a predictor of administration behavior. Lerner's knowledge of and participation in planning to use the IRS as a political weapon, in coordination with the White House, is why she twice invoked the Fifth Amendment in her congressional visits, even as she was cooperating — or is it coordinating? — with Eric Holder's Justice Department.

As Joseph Curl notes in the Washington Times, the Articles of Impeachment against Nixon charged that he "endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."

Sounds like IRS targeting of the Tea Party to us. The president's defenders have told of rogue agents in Cincinnati and other tales while claiming that the trail doesn't lead to the White House. The missing Lerner emails might show a trail straight into the Oval Office.

A statement from the House Ways and Means Committee after Friday's announcement noted how implausible and convenient it was that the IRS computer crashed and lost Lerner emails from January 2009 to April 2011.

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Matthews: Sterling Worst Case Of Self-Destruction Since Romney & Nixon --Glue his lips! Matthews, not Sterling.

April 28, 2014 Chris Matthews , Donald Sterling 0 Comments
By Matt Willstein, Apr. 28, 2014, Mediaite.com

After a week-long trip to China, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was back in his seat on Hardball Monday evening, diving head first into the controversy over racist remarks by L.A. Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling that were recently caught on tape. Matthews attempted to show how Sterling’s debacle fit into a historical context that includes Mitt Romney and former President Richard Nixon.

Matthews began by summing up Sterling’s relationships with minorities as based on “usefulness,” whether it was his primarily black players making him money or his girlfriend offering him “lovely, accommodating companionship.”

“Tonight, we look at how and why this man, Donald Sterling, billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers, got himself tape recorded in the worst such case of verbal self-destruction since Mitt Romney’s 47% debacle,” Matthews continued. “Or going back further, to Richard Nixon.” The host was referring, of course, to Romney’s assertion that 47% of Americans are ““dependent” on government along with Nixon’s incriminating White House recordings leading up to the Watergate scandal.

“Is Donald Sterling dead as an NBA owner?” Matthews asked.

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