Richard Nixon laid back Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, after his Watergate tapes had shown the public just what kind of a man he was. Despite his claim that I am not a crook!, most believed he lied to the Congress, to the public, and probably to himself. There is
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and his Ghastly Flying Monkeys
I've been warning for a while that the number of young right-wing fanatics in the PMO War Machine had reached dangerous levels.And that with their master Stephen Harper so desperate, some of them would eventually take wing like the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.And sure enough they have. And
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper and Senate scandal
Richard Nixon seemed to have spoken the same words when faced with the Watergate scandal.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fatal Nixon Moment
Well since nobody believes what Stephen Harper and his Cons have to say about the Senate scandal, because they've lied about everything for eight years. And nobody believes anything the Con senators have to say because they've been revealed to be nothing but stooges of the PMO.Today the Harperites tried something different
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: So Hauntingly Familiar
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Continue readingAlberta Diary: How will we get back to the 19th Century without Stephen Harper? Why he should go, and won’t
A forlorn Richard Nixon waves goodbye to Washington for the last time from the steps of the presidential helicopter on Aug. 9, 1974. Don’t count on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do the same thing any time soon, even if it destroys his party. Below: Stephen Harper looking appropriately gloomy
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Senategate Show
Well according to the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation, Stephen Harper's main activity today was talking to Barack Obama about the crisis in Syria. But knowing him I wouldn't be surprised if he spent most of his day worrying about this latest Bob Fife report. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ex-chief of staff worked closely with
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fatal Enemy List
He's still lurking in the shadows. Still afraid to meet the media. Still hoping that Canadians will forget his Enemy List.But it's just not working. And today thousands of them demanded to know who is on that sinister list. Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Score Another One For The Star
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Separated At Birth?
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Continue readingAlberta Diary: Tom Flanagan, neoconservative spiritual leader, consigned to utter darkness
Conservative icon Tom Flanagan’s defining moment. Below: Dr. Flanagan in happier times; the six signatories of the Alberta separatist Firewall Manifesto; Richard Nixon saying goodbye during his 1952 Checkers speech. Unlike Dr. Flanagan’s likely career trajectory, Mr. Nixon came back. Who could have predicted that yesterday would be the pope’s
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The “Tone at the Top” from two perspectives: Richard Nixon and the AHS
When Richard Nixon told David Frost than an illegal activity is not illegal “when the president does it” he confirmed what we’d all suspected: the “tone at the top” as far as the 37th President of the United States was concerned was hopelessly corrupt. Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Potted history: why the winter of 2012 feels like the summer of ’73
Richard Nixon after his overwhelming 1972 re-election victory. Below: George McGovern, Alison Redford. Here in Alberta’s icy capital, the winter of 2012 is starting to feel like the summer of ’73. If you’re an Alberta Progressive Conservative, this is not a good thing. Let me explain. In the spring and summer of 1972, Richard Nixon, …
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Cone of Silence won’t make Albertans any less angry at expense account shenanigans
Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne, at right, and a representative of the media go inside the Cone of Silence to discuss the latest health care expense account revelations. Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated, but, boy, Maxwell Smart sure looks like Dalton McGuinty! Below: Premier Redford’s sister Lynn, CBC reporter Charles Rusnell and …
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Today’s anniversary of a year of Tory rule in Ottawa: it just doesn’t get any better than this!
Contemplating the thought of three more years of Stephen Harper. Below: Mr. Harper himself. Tory times, as the old saying goes, are terrible times. So it should surprise no one that as we mark the first anniversary of Stephen Harper’s majority victory today, the country is increasingly polarized, students are
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Would You Buy A Used Car From This Man?
The above question, first asked about Richard Nixon as he ran against John Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential race, was designed to underscore the seemingly untrustworthy nature of the candidate – his shifty, evasive gaze, heavy perspiration, and his 5 o’clock shadow all seemed to suggest a man hiding something.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Robots
Well there he was in Question Period, looking and sounding like a robot, refusing to say why his Cons are refusing to cooperate with Elections Canada. Repeating the same answer over and over again. “Mr. Speaker, I gave clear answers regarding the activities of the Conservative party of Canada,” he
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Not a Good Time for Stephen Harper to be Compared to Richard Nixon
The historian Garry Wills once observed that Richard Nixon wanted to be president not to govern the nation but to undermine the government. The Nixon presidency was one long counterinsurgency campaign against key American institutions like the courts, the FBI, the state department and the CIA. Harper has the same
Continue readinggay persons of color: Did Richard Nixon have a gay lover?
Does anyone care if former U.S. president Richard Nixon had a gay lover? Well, I do, because I would prefer that the anti-Semitic, misogynist, racist, homophobic, Republican, and central Watergate scandal figure was not part of the LGBT team. But, as we all know, gays, like any other human beings,
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: I Think I Can Answer the Question on This Week’s Cover of Time
“In Gallup’s poll of the Republican faithful at the start of 1966, Nixon was ahead by twenty-three points. Michigan governor George Romney sat fourth. But Romney was the one all the pundits were picking …” Nixonland, By Rick Perlstein, 2008 George Romney was of course, Mitt’s father. But why did the
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