Obama survived fast and furious because of pmsnbcabccbscnn..
Democrats wanted Nixon impeached in his first term, long before Watergate.
Hate to think what Dean looks like now. Saw him ten years ago and he looked like Death eating a Ritz cracker.
The poor judgement expressed in the article may just be an indicator of why Dean ended up in so much trouble back then.
I don't see how being supported by Fox News would have kept the grand jury from identifying Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator, which, as I recall, was the case. Nixon mused that raising hush money to conceal the conspiracy could be done. Nixon was an arrogant jerk and deserved what happened to him and then some.
To this day we don't know what was on the 18-minutes of erased tape. It must have been pretty damning to obstruct justice so blatantly. And yes, I believe it is possible for a President to obstruct justice. The executive branch is not the sole arbiter of what constitutes "justice".
Barack Obama wouldn’t have been charged if he had done what Nixon did. Both he and his slimy predecessor Clinton routinely did far worse with regularity. While I’m at it, I’d point out that Nixon’s AG John Mitchell went to prison, but he was a bloody angel compared to Janet Reno, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. The double standard is maddening. The Rats are never held accountable for anything, yet they can hound and persecute Republicans with impunity.
G. Gordon wanted to take Dean out.
John Dean — weasel then, weasel now.
Clinton survived because of abcnnbcbs all giving him and hillary cover.
Nixon would have survived Watergate if he had done the same thing Clinton did when he was faced with a constitutional crises.... Flipping the Congress and the Senate the bird. Instead, he saved his party and paved the way for Ronald Reagan and Bush 1 to run the White House for 12 consecutive years.
The fact is this... The president is elected by the people and while the concept of removing him from office is a viable one with impeachment, no sitting President has ever been removed from office via that remedy.
At the end of the day it isn’t practical because a President duly elected by the people through the electoral college system can always say NO.
That is the reason Clinton’s conviction vote in the Senate failed. That and the lack of two thirds majority, but even if there were a two thirds majority the President is the Commander in Chief of one thee largest military’s in
world history. He tells them to jump, and they typical say ‘how high’. When Clinton bombed Iraq on the very same day that the articles of impeachment were voted for in Congress, Clinton was sending the Senate and any political opponents within his own party a very subtle and very important message... Do not screw with me. I am the President.
At the end they didn’t and that is why Clinton was not convicted in the Senate and why there has never ever been a sitting President removed by office via impeachment.
Nixon could easily have done the same as Clinton and said... Screw you. Instead he resigned from office before the Congress could vote for articles of impeachment, because despite the seething hatred and malice Democrats held toward Nixon, he was an intelligent and principled man who understood that a nation embroiled in the travails that the Unites States had gone through over the previous 10 years with the Vietnam war, the assassination of a President, the assassinations of King and Bobby Kennedy, the alarming rise of militancy, etc. That a country that had gone through all that, didn’t need a constitutional crises to top it all off.
Nixon saved the Republican party and he also likely saved the American political system from itself at the same time with his resignation.
So what? LBJ and JFK survived a ton of scandals because the media looked the other way.
Which means, what? A major voice that dares to say something different from the normal Lügenpresse liberal echo chamber?
Dean, who Gordon Liddy said actually ordered the break in to retrieve info on Dean’s wife, is a little weasel.
The media just doesn’t get it. Every time they trot out Dean and other shrill idots of his ilk it only helps our side.
Obama would not have survived without CNN and MSNBC.
Who?
Actually, it would never have been an issue if Nixon was a Democrat.
Yet Dean doesn’t mention Fox once in the article..
With Nixon’s placement of the EPA and price controls, there is a lot for conservatives to dislike about Nixon.
But what he did have right was his battle against the left, beginning with Alger Hiss and culminating with his battle against the likes of Daniel Ellsberg et al.
Daniel Ellsberg and his ideological descendants in office today are bent on destroying America. Nixon was right to hate them as see them as the threat they are, as many of us do.
Nixon wasn’t handsome or even likable for many, but he was right in this respect.
If you read Whitewater it is hard to find any real crime. There certainly wasn’t anything that wasn’t done by both sides.
I. Baseless speculation is fun, so I’ll see Dean’s “survive Watergate if Foxnews had existed”, and raise him to “Watergate wouldn’t have happened.”
Why?: Nixon saw the entire news media as arrayed in Democrat lockstep against him, in support of a far-Left candidate. With “fair and balanced” coverage, Nixon would have no reason to think McGovern had a prayer of winning, and whatever was in the Watergate Hotel would have been beneath notice.
II. No, Mr. Dean, Congress cannot impeach Presidents for reasons not enumerated in the Constitution, or twist interpretations into something they are not (mean tweets are a high misdemeanor!). That is called a coup d’état. It would trigger a Constitutional crisis and possibly a cleansing purge. Not happening.