Scandals are nothing new to Washington. In fact, the City lives on scandal. Something is wrong if another local DC politician is not indicted every few months. Then there are the annual big scandals that come from the Federal Government.
There are two scandals worth looking at. One is the granddaddy of all scandals and one is unfolding right before our eyes.
There are some huge lessons to be learned from what is happening and what happened forty years ago.
In the long hot summer of 1972, the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate Building was broken into. The reasons for the break in remain vague and really unanswered.
The results are well known. While Richard Nixon may not have known initially what was going on, he certainly wanted to cover it up. His cover up slowly came unraveled. Despite the fact he crushed George McGovern in November 1972, by 1973, Watergate became a household word.
Republicans though willing to defend Nixon initially, began to ask questions. Many Republican would not blindly sit by and let Nixon continue his cover up. Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General and his deputy Attorney General resigned rather than fire independent prosecutor Archibald Cox. Nixon wanted to fire Cox because Cox would not bury the investigation.
As House and Senate Committees lined up to investigate Watergate, the Republicans asked as many hard questions as the Democrats did. It was Tennessee Republican Howard Baker who asked the famous question, “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
By the summer of 1974, the Nixon Presidency was collapsing. In early August, Republicans went to the White House and informed Nixon that there were enough votes to impeach and remove him from Office. While the Democrats were anxious to do so, there were many Republicans who realized Nixon had violated the law and would vote to remove him.
Now, forty years after what has been called “a third rate burglary,” what could be the largest Presidential scandal since Watergate is unfolding before our eyes. Interestingly enough some of the legal issues are the same, including the executive privilege claim that Richard Nixon pioneered.
But there is one huge difference.
Unlike years earlier, where Republicans broke ranks with their President to find out what the President knew and when he knew it, Democrats are standing firm to try and make sure the American people never know what did the Attorney General know, when did he know about it and did he lie to Congress?
Yesterday, after repeated subpoenas and demands, the House oversight committee, on a straight party line vote, voted to ask the full House to hold the Attorney General in contempt of Congress.
The Democrats are screaming about this.
There is no doubt that Fast and Furious is a real scandal. One American Border Patrol agent is dead because of it. Potentially hundreds of Mexicans are dead because of this.
The plan to allow guns into Mexico, which many believe was done so the Obama Regime could make an attack on our Second Amendment Rights, was possibly criminal to begin with.
It is bad enough that people at the highest levels of the Justice Department not only knew about this botched operation but also have worked to at best mislead and stonewall Congress and at worst lie to Congress. But as Watergate taught us so many years ago, it is not the initial incident that is so bad. It is the cover up that always gets you.
What is also very disturbing is the underlying story here. Fast and Furious would never have been investigated by Congress if the Democrats were still in charge. Both Nancy Pelosi, if she were the Speaker and Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee have dismissed Fast and Furious as a scandal. Two days ago, he said Eric Holder acted honorably.
The painful truth is that we now have a major political party in Washington that will do anything, say anything, bury any scandal, just so it can hold on to power. Gone are the days when Democrats would step up for the truth for the greater good of America.
Gone are the days when Democrats could put aside partisan bickering in the best interest of the nation.
Gone are the days when Democrats loved this nation and could be counted on to be patriotic.
Today, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are both symbols of the new Party of Treason.
This is a party that must be defeated decisively while we still have the freedom left to beat them.
Tags: barack, eric, fast, furious, holder, nixon, obama, richard, watergate
Permalink Reply by Dorris Ponstingl on This is KNOWN to be the MOST CORRUPT GOVENMENT the USA has ever had ,including all the past LIARS, CHEETS AND THIEFS.. This one is walking away with a blue ribbon.
Permalink Reply by Katie Kalpin on And they are blunt about it to! But I don't think he is walking away with a blue ribbon, he is walking away with a foot print on his butt!! :D He is losing left and right (No pun intended there lol) We have been winning like crazy ever since he entered into office. Scott Brown, the House, Scott Walker (I am starting to think that we need more Scotts in our party lol) we have smashed the Unions and it looks like we ended Obamacare!! So I am going to say for this President EPIC FAIL!! Face Palm President for sure!! :D
Permalink Reply by Richard Banko on AGREED - except they not only got the blue ribbons- they got all the trophies and everything else they can garner along the way - CROOKED is way to tame a word for these clowns
Permalink Reply by Robert R Smith on These people you refer to as Democrats are greedy self serving individuals, not the public servant that was then. They grew up in the gimme this and that days. Just like us, except they had parents who would do anything to shut them up. Some people are just that selfish.
Permalink Reply by Rocketeer on Yep, Like good little Union Communists they close ranks to defend their own miscreants...You surprised?
Permalink Reply by Dr. Arthur W. Carpenter on "Racist, RACIST, RACIST!" I can hear the calls coming until they ring in my ears.
Permalink Reply by Katie Kalpin on 
Permalink Reply by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on The GOP have also been lazy about getting to the bottom of this. We need to get to the bottom of this and kick Obama and Holder out of office ASAP.
Permalink Reply by Donald A. Richards on The "party first, screw the country" attitude of the Democrats is the usual and fully expected action from them. Now that Obama has thrown it back in their faces, let's see if the Republican leadership has the guts to take him on or opt for the easy way out and just run and hide. We see them doing photo ops and trash talking on TV about this, but their track record on standing up to Obama and the Democrats is abysmal. Time will tell, but I'm not hopeful they won't break out the white flags yet again.
Permalink Reply by Katie Kalpin on There is no Democratic party there is only the liberal party (Of treason). I had watched the entire hearing yesterday and I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the left. I should not have been shocked, but knowing that so many were killed ny thins loser and many of them being one of the groups that the liberals pretend to care about, I really was surprised. Then they blamed Bush and I lost it, I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop, I had tears coming out of my eye's and my stomach actually hurt. But I was VERY proud of the Republicans, not only did they stand their ground, but they kicked the liberals butt so hard that you will never see them sit again!! LMBO!! They called them out on many things and even once told them to knock off the Bush blaming! It was AWESOME!! They also talked about Obama steping to protect holder. Boehner would be so..mad lol there was no surrender there! :D Isn't it amazing how the Democrats have no Morals, you would think that they would want to do something to fix their bad rap, but no, they would rather kill people...they really do make me SICK!! Time for them to go..All of them!!
Permalink Reply by Rich Knoch on The obama Regime makes Nixon look like a schoolboy prank . . . . which it actually was!
Did obama know about Fast & Furious in May, 2010 . . . .all it would take is simple honesty from Mr. Grindler - - is this really why obama buried this crime under Executive Privilege? His minions, in lock-step, are following him to the abyss.
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