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Posts Tagged ‘watergate’

GEORGE W. BUSH

What Next For the Bush/Cheney Administration? Maybe Guillotines!

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Let them eat heads! - WonketteThey’re immune to all laws, they can throw you in the gulag for any reason at all, and they can lock up all your money and property if you’re “impeding” whatever crazed satanic bullshit they’re doing now or in the future. So what can Congress or the Military or you, the hapless citizen, actually do to stop them? We’ve consulted top historians and constitutional scholars — the ones that came up on the first page of the Google search, anyway — and they’ve got some fun advice for America. MORE »


WHITE HOUSE

White House Solves U.S. Attorney Scandal

Friday, July 20th, 2007

And they called it 'Saturday Night Live!' or something ... watersnakes ...  - WonketteHere’s something for you libtards who call the Bush Administration a dismal, murderous failure: They’ve totally solved that whole fired-U.S. Attorneys mess. So Congress doesn’t have to worry about it ever again, and especially doesn’t need to file contempt charges against everybody in the Administration. MORE »


WATERGATE

A Memo From Nixon

Monday, July 16th, 2007

'What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? ' - WonketteSay what you want about Nixon — he’s dead and can’t hurt us anymore, probably — but the guy could at least write a memo! Thanks to the federal government’s seizure of the Nixon Library, a whole bunch of new evidence is finally coming out of the vaults, so we can thrill to the literary stylings of Richard M. MORE »


WATERGATE

Feds Seize Rogue Presidential Library

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Four more years! - WonketteFederal officials took over the Richard M. Nixon Library today, ending the rogue institution’s 17-year reign of historical bullshit. In line with the other 11 presidential libraries that are authorized by the National Archives, the Nixon Library will now have to tell the truth, especially about Watergate — which the privately-run Library had maintained was simply an evil coup against the world’s greatest president. MORE »


SCOOTER LIBBY

Scooter Libby Has Paid His Debt To Society

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Here it is, Scooter Libby’s receipt from the courthouse — evidence that his lawyers cut a quarter-million-dollar check (plus $400 for some fee) from his legal defense fund and had a courier drop it off. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE. MORE »


FRED THOMPSON

No-Nonsense Straight-Talkin’ Prosecutor Nearly Fucked Up Watergate Hearings

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

That's Fred on the left. - WonketteFred Thompson was a simple down-home country lawyer back in the early 70s. Then, after he ran Senator Howard Baker’s successful ‘72 reelection campaign, Baker brought Thompson to Washington to serve as deputy counsel for the committee investigating Watergate. Fred proceeded to sabotage the committee’s investigation by leaking as much shit to Nixon’s lawyers as he could get away with. Then he bragged about it in his book! Thompson’s book, I Am Personally Responsible for Overthrowing Richard Nixon Even Though I Loved Him, hasn’t been read by anyone since he wrote it in 1975. The Boston Globe found a copy in the library and learned that Thompson admits to leaking the Senate’s discovery of Nixon’s White House audio taping system days before Thompson asked the famous question about them during a televised hearing. Thompson had no problem asking about the tapes, even though he loved Nixon, because a) it would put him on the TV, and b) he was positive the tapes would exonerate the drug-addled corrupt old bastard, because he’s a fucking imbecile.
Not all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson’s Watergate role [Globe]


BOB WOODWARD

Happy 35th Anniversary, Watergate Burglary!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

GHWB was Deep Throat! - WonketteIt was 2:30 a.m. on a Saturday — June 17, 1972 — that five burglars were arrested at the Watergate offices of the DNC. Later that day, hippie Carl Bernstein was working on the story — but Republican naval intelligence spook and “rookie reporter” Bob Woodward was quickly assigned to “help.”

Let’s celebrate America’s Favorite Birthday, after the jump.

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WATERGATE

Long National Nightmare Finally Getting Good Again: Gonzo Subpoenaed!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Here’s the entire AP story, in its entirety:

Washington (AP) - The House Judiciary Committee has served a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.

House Judiciary Panel Subpoenas Gonzales [AP]


GEORGE W. BUSH

Kissinger Tapes Reveal We Are Still Living In 1972

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Imagine a White House full of scheming backstabbing power-mad global criminals — you know, but not right now. Earlier, like from 1969 to 1974. That’s when the hilarious duo of Henry Kissinger and his meathead drunken buddy Richard Nixon were president.

Like our current crazy duo of Cheney & Dubya, “Jew Boy” and “Meatball Mind” broke hundreds of laws, murdered hundreds of thousands of people and basically tried their damnedest to destroy the United States of America. After the jump, read hilarious highlights from the just-released Kissinger tapes — turns out Kissinger was taping everybody’s phone calls, too!

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REPUBLICANS

Beware, Conservatives! Fred Thompson Is a ‘Neocon Globalist’

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Also a no-nonsense District Attorney in the teevee! - WonketteWe’re on the Conservative News Yahoo mailing list, obviously, and we paid extra close attention to today’s e-mail:

Many people are engaged in a type of idolatry when it comes to Fred Thompson. Certainly, he’s better than McCain, Giuliani or Romney — but that isn’t saying very much. They are horrible. We like this op-ed, which you should post to your blogs.

The op-ed in question reveals Secrets about the famous teevee actor and Watergate prosecutor, such as: MORE »


WHITE HOUSE

Bush To Resign At 5:45 P.M.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Ha ha, you wish. But he is making a “statement,” and it just might be a farewell to Alberto … or a pledge to send another 100,000 school-age troops for a Children’s Crusade in the Middle East. Who really knows?

Meanwhile, Watergate legend and current White House counsel Fred Fielding has sent a very special letter to Leahy and Conyers, offering the usual unsworn midnight interviews with Rove, Harriet, etc., but only if the Senate and House operate with the lights off and everybody wears Jar Jar Binks’ masks and the Medallion of Secrecy is waved over each doorway during the backwards-masked Pig Call.

Read the whole dumb thing, after the jump.

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