During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invoked Watergate and former President Richard Nixon as she discussed her push to impeach President Donald Trump. This comes in the wake of last week’s riots in which a group of Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol. Pelosi announced Sunday in a letter…
Booming: Jobless Claims Hit Lowest Level Since the Nixon Administration – VIDEO
March 30, 2018 by
Tax reform may not be generating the drumbeat of positive headlines that it once was, but the progress and successes it has created continue to pile up. Walgreens has affirmed a $100 million investment in raising employees’ wages thanks to the GOP-passed law, as McDonald’s unveils new education benefits, also to the tune of nine […]
Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly.
December 15, 2017 by
On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned. The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump has this city drooling. Yet, comparing Russiagate and Watergate, history is not likely to repeat itself. First, the underlying crime in Watergate, a break-in to wiretap […]
Obama Had A Lower Average Approval Rating Than NIXON
January 23, 2017 by
President Barack Obama had a lower average approval rating than a president who resigned and another who was impeached, according to Gallup. Gallup published Jan. 20 that Obama’s average approval rating was 47.9 percent. When compared to post-World War II presidents, Obama ranks ninth out of 12, according to CNS News. Both Richard Nixon and […]
Hillary looking more like Nixon as email scandal deepens
August 18, 2015 by
Now Hillary Clinton’s being compared to President Richard Nixon by one of the two reporters famous for breaking the scandal that brought Nixon down. How much worse is the email mess going to get? The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward laid it out Monday: “You’ve got a massive amount of data. It, in a way, reminds […]