{"id":31584,"date":"2018-08-06T23:41:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31584"},"modified":"2018-08-06T23:41:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:41:48","slug":"are-we-entering-watergate-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31584","title":{"rendered":"Are we entering Watergate 2.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maybe it’s just me, but I’m beginning to sense a certain frenzy developing around the White House that — if memory serves — resembles the climate that fell over the place during the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n

Yes, Watergate happened a long time ago. President Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974 just as he was about to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. As Carl Bernstein — one of the Washington Post reporters who covered the story — noted the other day, the “real heroes” of the Watergate saga turned out to be congressional Republicans<\/em> — led by Sen. Barry Goldwater — who told the president he had no Senate support were the impeachment to go to trial.<\/p>\n

That kind of “heroism” is missing at the moment.<\/p>\n

Still, my sense is that there is a growing tension beginning to develop in Washington, on Capitol Hill and the White House as special counsel Robert Mueller continues his work to determine if there was any “collusion” between the Trump campaign team and Russians who attacked our electoral system in 2016.<\/p>\n

I am in no position to know how this case will conclude. It well might end with Mueller saying, “I got nothin’, folks”<\/em> — which I doubt will happen. He might recommend criminal proceedings against key White House aides, maybe even the president himself.<\/p>\n

Or … he could scold the president and his team and leave all the political consequences up to the House of Representatives and the Senate.<\/p>\n

However, those of us of a certain age — such as Americans, like me, who came of age politically during the Watergate era — might be feeling a bit of deja vu<\/em> as we watch the current White House writhe and squirm as the special counsel goes about his complicated task.<\/p>\n

I know I am.<\/p>\n\n

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Maybe it’s just me, but I’m beginning to sense a certain frenzy developing around the White House that — if memory serves — resembles the climate that fell over the place during the Watergate scandal. Yes, Watergate happened a long time ago. President Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974 just as he was about to … Continue reading Are we entering Watergate 2.0?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7928,13],"tags":[74,864,1424,2253,3940,7093,4209,5191,5206],"class_list":["post-31584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-carl-bernstein","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-richard-nixon","tag-russia-probe","tag-senate-gop","tag-washington-post","tag-watergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31587,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions\/31587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}