It hardly took the recent Scott McClellan book to confirm the verdict of Watergate emeritus John Dean that the current crop of Neo-Con Cosa Nostras in the Bush administration is far worse than the Nixon Mafioso. But this view tells only part of the story.
No, I’m not talking about the world-class competition between the two Administrations for violating constitutional, international and moral norms. Indeed, my own sense of history and constitutional law persuades me that Dean’s aptly named book about the Bush gang, Worse Than Watergate, is unquestionably accurate.
Instead, my only quibble with Dean’s neat alliterative title is that it doesn’t take into account the drama, pageantry and mythic proportions of Watergate that I perceive, through my nostalgic-colored glasses, as sadly missing in the Bushian banana republic.
I guess what I’m driving at is, Tuesdays have no feel, and neither does the current Constitutional crisis.
The contrasts are both stark, and too numerous to exhaustively list. Where, for example, is the modern equivalent of country lawyer Sam Ervin, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Watergate, armed with both a copy of a tattered Constitution in his back pocket, and a down-home Jimmy Stewart-like authenticity (replete with stammer) that we’d be hard pressed to find in today’s Congress.
And as dangerous as he was, and probably still is, Karl Rove miraculously managed to maintain a kind of clownish countenance (even before his embarrassing rap performance), that stands out in bold relief to those twin scowling Nixonian palace guards, Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
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