05-20-2013, 02:11 AM
Ted King wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Caveat: If Obama directed, or deliberately looked the other way from, the IRS scrutiny, then you have something Nixonian--but even then that's not what brought Nixon down. Currently, Obama's pretty well covered by the Reagan defense of ignorance.
Noonan seems to have forgotten the Iran-Contra scandal. A lot of laws were clearly broken - heck, the Constitution itself was directly violated. People in the Reagan administration sold arms to the mullahs in Iran for cripes sake. And yet that just breezes through Noonan's mind (which shows you how full of holes it is) when she's trying to think of the worst scandals since Watergate. Worse, I wouldn't be surprised if she, like a great many other conservatives, considers Oliver North to be a hero for what he did. Blech.
Expecting anything approaching objectivity from a former White House speech writer is a bit much. When discussing Democrats I give her as much credence as I do Lawrence O'Donnell when discussing Republicans.