Reid to Bush: Follow footsteps of Reagan, not Nixon

[sabra]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/nov/02/110210111.html

Reid to Bush: Follow footsteps of Reagan, not Nixon

ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENO, Nev. (AP) - President Bush could revive his troubled presidency by cleaning house among his top aides, much like Ronald Reagan did when faced with the Iran-Contra scandal, Sen. Harry Reid said Wednesday.

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"I really believe the president has to follow one of two lanes of traffic," Reid said Wednesday.

"One is follow the lane of traffic that Richard Nixon liked to stay in, and that is just to hunker down there in the White House and not do anything," he told KKOH Radio of Reno in a telephone interview from Washington.

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"Ronald Reagan, being the person that he was, he said `I'm not going to put up with this' and he fired lots of people and he brought in (ex-Senate Majority Leader) Howard Baker to run that office.

[FloridaPat]

1. But he never got caught! He never paid for his crimes and now we

are stuck with the same people who commited the crimes!

[JJackFlash]

7. reagan should have been impeached

[Zhade]

25. Reagan should have died in prison.

NT!

[Stand and Fight]

2. Sounds like a warning of impeachment possibilities to me.

Harry Reid is fucking kicking ass man!

[Canuckistanian]

6. Of course it is!

2006 is looming....

[Scout1071]

18. Yes, it is - Give 'Em Hell Harry! n/t

[European Socialist]

3. Dumya can't clean house--they'll all write books.

[Erika]

5. Dumya can't clean house - they are his brains n/t

[Canuckistanian]

4. OOOOooo, that'll get him riled

Reagan is the embodiment of the Second Coming. This won't go over well.

And Nixon? He's history, more ancient than King Arthur. No lessons to be learned here.

[Jawja]

28. Especially when

both Cheney and Rumsfeld are Nixon people. Not only do we have Iran-Contra criminals back, we have Nixonians back. They all slithered back in with *.

[Dulcinea]

32. Reid is pushing all the right buttons!

He knows exactly what he's doing!

[Hardrada]

8. NO. Bush must follow Nixon's footsteps

right out the WH door and out of town for good!!

[Blaq Dem]

14. Damn, you stole my idea!

That's why I love DU. You all know what's exactly on my mind and says whatever it is I am about to say.

Anyway, I was going to say "CORRECTION: Bush must follow Nixon and RESIGN."

[Hardrada]

23. They do that to me too!

[JoFerret]

9. Great way to needle his fraudulency

We would be better off if Bush were a Nixon. However - why do we have to choose between two evils?

Nixon? Reagan? Both terrible presidents. Both bad for America.

Just get it over with W, impeach yourself now and slink away to Crawford.

[NVMojo]

29. one by one, Harry is peeling their skin back and scratching it with

barbed wire!

[deadparrot]

10. That's really hitting Bush where it hurts.

He's obsessed with a Raygun-esque legacy.

Give 'em hell, Harry. :bounce:

[Occulus]

11. Ouch. n/t

[meganmonkey]

12. Too late for Booooshie!

So Nixon it is. Seee ya! (hopefully behind bars! :rofl: )

:hi:

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Both are deceased - follow either one.

[newscott]

15. So Bush should use the I don't recall defense

versus the I'm not a crook defense?

[daleo]

16. Then pardon everyone as you leave office, just like Reagan

That was a great slap in the face to the principle of rule of law. I don't think the American people will stand for it twice, though.

[kurth]

17. The last time Bush listened to Reid, he picked Harriet Miers

Wily old fox.

[leesa]

19. How about following the footsteps of a non-criminal? Reagan was up to

his neck in Iran-Contra but just lied his way out. There MUST be one or two conservatives that aren't crooks.

[0rganism]

20. No can do, W is going to be blazing his own trail from here on out

To imply that this administration bears more than a cursory resemblance to the less-savory administrations of the past is to miss the larger picture. To the extent that there is a resemblance, it's because the same people who should be in jail for their Reagan-era crimes hold positions of power in this one, too. But they've taken it a step further, this time around. This was no covert war, justified by vague cold-war ideals and run under the table with nudge-nudge-wink-wink clandestine operations. No, this was a blatant manipulation of the public in a drive to large-scale violence of a kind not seen since the Tonkin resolution.

There was no existing government calling for our assistance against a communist insurgency to justify our occupation. Oil-grabbing, windfall profits through sweetheart contracts, and election-year politics were the overriding administrative concerns, while protecting the homeland from mythical weapons of mass destruction was the propagandists' tool for adjusting the public perception. What's the latest line? Elections? Pushing a heavily theocratic region toward democracy through brute force is such an implausibly thin excuse, I can't take its proponents seriously -- hell, I doubt they take their own writings seriously.

The scope of the W administration's base perfidy and corruption will be the topic of history texts for centuries to come -- if a literate humanity survives the coming nightmare.

[truthisfreedom]

21. nice wording. maybe he could follow in FDR's footsteps and just not wake

up some morning. no offense intended... i'm just sayin'.

[drfresh]

22. Good line. Go get em Harry! -nt

[mdelaguna2000]

24. Reid is great but Reagan was evil too!

I'd rather he follow Nixon and just resign.

[Roarin]

26. The women on the right might help Ried give Bush the boot...

..after he let the right mier Miers and replaced O'Conner with a male. <P>
Can you say major republican split down the gender line?

[LiberteToujours]

27. It's a PR line, and it works

He's saying this for the sake of the average American, not us here who know about Reagan's crimes. In the American mind, Reagan equals good and Nixon equals bad. So don't worry about the details, just repeat it : Mr. Bush, are you a Reagan or a Nixon?

[Demeter]

30. What? Develop Memory Problems? Pardon Everyone?

Gut the country and destroy the environment? (well, he already did that).


Following Reagan is not good advice for anyone. Better he should resign like Nixon (once we have Cheney out). Then we can ship him to the Hague.

It looks more and more like Bush will have to flee to Saudi Arabia, as some wags have facetiously predicted.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. Reagan and Nixon, one got caught and the other one didn't. Fuck 'em both.

[yellowcanine]

33. Boy George has to know that the chances of his impeachment skyrocket if

the Dems capture the House in 2006 - as do the chances of conviction if they capture the Senate. So he has a lot of reasons to listen to Harry. We shall see.