Not content with using the 1970’s Viet Nam analogy to explain the Iraq war, the left is now resurrecting another one of their glory moments from the 1970’s – the Watergate affair – to draw a parallel with the not-yet-named Rove-Wilson-Plame kerfuffle.
This posting on Daily Kos asks the famous question “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
You’ve got one question on your plate, Scott McClellan.When did the President first learn of Karl Rove’s involvement in this case?
As of this morning, Day 4 of the saga, this is where the President stands:
Stonewall.
Of course, you can’t resurrect an analogy unless you use the terminology of the time. Hence, the use of Senator Howard Baker’s famous question on the President’s involvement as well as the use of “stonewall” – another Watergate era term.
This got me to thinking. As long as the left wants to get in a time machine and go back to the 1970’s, perhaps while they’re at it, they can bring back a few more cultural touchstones:
TOP TEN 1970’S ICONS THE DEMOCRATS CAN BRING BACK ALONG WITH VIET NAM AND WATERGATE
10. Mood Rings
9. Beanbag chairs
8. Black Light posters
7. Blotter Acid on Mickey Mouse Stamped Paper
6. Decent One Hit Weed
5. Pooka Shell Necklaces
4. Consequence Free Sex
3. Donna Summers
2. Moon Landings
And the number one icon I’d like to see the Democrats bring back from the 1970’s?......
1. Robert Crumb Posters
“STONED AGAIN”
9:14 am
Rick,
The left is as euphoric as they were the day of the election by believing in web speculation of a Kerry victory. This non-story and the stupidity of attaching their star to a character like Joe Wilson, ultimately will turn to deep over the edge depression when it is revealed that the conspirators are Joe and Valerie Wilson.
12:00 pm
Cute. How about some Reagan-era nostalgia for the WingNuts?
1. Eat your veggies (ketchup packet,please)
2. Drug abuse solved – Just Say No!
3. The Posse Comititus Rides Again
4. Nuke Russia beginning in . . .(what a jokester)
5. How ‘bout another helping of Voodoo Economics?
6. AIDS is just a Fag Disease – Ignore it
7. Presidential Astrologers
8. Arms for Hostages (might work in Iraq)
9. Evangelical Christan Influence – Jimmy Swaggart, anyone?
10.Michael Jackson mania, its a Thriller! (what would you do for a Klondike bar, little boy?)
1:52 pm
Rick, I am so glad that you didn’t mention LAVA LAMPS. My daughters each have one, and I stare at them constantly. (The lamps.) They are the way-cuelist thing. We don’t need the Dems giving them a bad name.
docG: I’m confused. Were those supposed to be in advancing order 1-10, or 10-1?
4:13 pm
Dog,
23 years of expanding GDP, low unemployment, low inflation,low taxes,and Where’s the Soviet Union? Give me more voodoo!
7:38 am
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