{"id":23934,"date":"2017-05-12T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23934"},"modified":"2017-05-12T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:30:08","slug":"blood-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23934","title":{"rendered":"Blood Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What you\u2019re seeing in the political miasma of \u201cRussiaGate\u201d is an exercise in nostalgia. Apart from the symbolic feat of getting a \u201cblack\u201d president freely elected in 2008 (remember, Mr. Obama is also half-white), the Democratic Party hasn\u2019t enjoyed a political triumph in half a century to match the Watergate extravaganza of 1972-74, which ended in the departure of Mr. Nixon, the designated Prince of Darkness of those dear dead days. Watergate had had a more satisfying finale than The Brides of Dracula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, in its current sad state, devoid of useful political ideas, mired in the mostly manufactured conflicts of race and gender, psychologically crippled by the election loss of a miserable candidate to the Golden Golem of Greatness, the Democratic Party is returning full steam to a gambit that worked so well years ago: beating the devil by congressional inquiry.<\/p>\n

In President Trump (uccchhh, the concept!), they\u2019ve got a target much juicier even than Old Nixie. It wasn\u2019t for nothing that they called him \u201cTricky Dick.\u201d He came back from political near-death twice in his career. The first time, running as Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s veep, he was accused of accepting the gift of a vicuna coat for his wife, Pat, and other secret cash emoluments. He overcame that with one of the first epic performances of the TV age, the \u201cCheckers Speech\u201d \u2014 Checkers being the family\u2019s cocker spaniel, who Nixon invoked as a proxy for his own guileless innocence. It worked bigly.<\/p>\n

The second near-death was his defeat in the California governor\u2019s race of 1962, following his 1960 squeaker presidential election loss to John F. Kennedy. \u201cYou won\u2019t have Nixon to kick around anymore\u2026\u201d he told the press. But he rose from the grave in 1968 \u2014 after fortifying his bank account in a Wall Street law practice \u2014 when the Vietnam War was tearing the country apart (and wrecking the Democratic Party of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey).<\/p>\n

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Blood Sports What you\u2019re seeing in the political miasma of \u201cRussiaGate\u201d is an exercise in nostalgia. Apart from the symbolic feat of getting a \u201cblack\u201d president freely elected in 2008 (remember, Mr. Obama is also half-white), the Democratic Party hasn\u2019t enjoyed a political triumph in half a century to match the Watergate extravaganza of 1972-74, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[14964,205,7844,449,678,15282],"class_list":["post-23934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-republicans","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23936,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23934\/revisions\/23936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}