As an avid collector of political bumper stickers, one of my favorites reads as indicated above...

Steve

Some of his domestic policies were pretty good, and he got the U.S. talking to China, and from what I remember reading resisted efforts to get into political bed with the fundies

Remember, "he's tanned, rested, and ready?"

My parents were absolutely horrified about what Richard Nixon did in the 1970's. My mother watched the Watergate Hearings live during the day, and my father came home and they watched them again as rebroadcasted on PBS.  But what Nixon did was child's play compared to the murder and mayhem unleashed by our current president, with authority obtained from Congress by lying to them, and to all of the American people.  If Nixon and Clinton were worthy of threatened impeachment, then George W. Bush should absolutely and positively answer to all of us for what he has done.

Had a roommate who could do a mean interpretation of Tricky and Sam Ervin.

I agree with your assessment.

was my law school ethics professor.

"Sam Dash died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure, aged 79, on the same day as Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor for the Watergate Scandal."
http://en.wikipedia....

Sam Dash quit as Ken Starr's ethics attorney when it became apparent to him he was being used as a "beard" for Starr's terrible ethics breaches.

[Y]ou have violated your obligations under the independent counsel statute and have unlawfully intruded on the power of impeachment which the Constitution gives solely to the House....[Y]ou have seriously harmed the public confidence in the independence and objectivity of your office. Frequently you have publicly stated that you have sought my advice in major decisions and had my approval. I cannot allow that inference to continue regarding your present abuse of your office and have no other choice but to resign.

OUCH
http://www.salon.com...

That Nixon went to China to negotiate a relationship that would prevent China from directly intervening into the Indochina wars (Vietnam,Laos,Cambodia, Thailand).  Nixon and Kissinger had made such a immoral mess of foreign policy that they literally brought us to the verge of World War.

George Bush has done much the same thing, except this time he isn't provoking a state, he is provoking a religion.  Way to go George, you are more unhinged than Dick Nixon.  Quite an accomplishment. 

George Bush attracts the attention of the world's simpletons - blind America haters, and America's own christofascists. The world would be better off if Armageddon's poster boy was taken down from the public spotlight. Impeachment Now.

Probably their gifted writer Ken Layne:

Ok, so the White House fired eight US Attorneys for sketchy political reasons. Everyone caught up? It seems, in hindsight, like a remarkably stupid decision, especially now that the congressional Dems are firing up the subpoenas and calling for Alberto Gonzales' head. (Justifying torture? We'll let that slide. Fire a lawyer, though, and you're in deep shit, Mister.)

Issuing warrantless National Security Letters against Americans - no hearing by Tom Davis's Oversight Committee.

Torture at Abu Gharib - 12 hours of hearings by Tom Davis's Oversight Committee.

Firing attorneys who are political appointees - who serve at the pleasure of the president, anyway, and worse: lying to Congress about it - priceless.

I just spotted this remarkable, astonishing, apparently damning posting made by "Citizen 92" at TPM Muckraker. Looks like another trail worth pursuing:

"In the second document dump, notice that White House Deputy Political Director is writing from the @gwb43.com email domain -- yet his official White House title and phone number is in the footer.

The gwb43.com domain WHOIS record shows that it is owned by the RNC.

Why are White House officials using e-mail accounts that are not their official White House domain server (@who.eop.gov)???

ARE THEY CONSCIOUSLY GOING AROUND HAVING IT REGISTER IN THE EOP SYSTEM SO AS NOT TO BE AN OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL RECORD (and hence, hidden from disclosure???)

Certainly a strange practice for a White House official to use an RNC domain for official communication with the Justice Department!!!

Posted by: Citizen 92
Date: March 13, 2007 01:33 PM"

....Also as a person who loves political bumperstickers/magnets--now days, the one I think is scarey and true "Bush is going to get us all Killed". The list that Lowell gave of Bush's f'ups is enough to give anyone "shock and awe". I just can't believe anyone would have the balls to have a Bush/Cheney sticker on their cars. How can anyone in their right mind think that Bush has done a good job, for God's sake somewhere in Central America where Bush visited, their holding an exercisom at the places Bush visited to get rid of his bad spirit. Can't say that I blame them.

It's also sickening to hear Dick "Johnson" Cheney talk like a bad ass when he had 5 deferments during the Nam. What a piece of shit he is. I sure hope the Dems get some balls and bring this corupt dictatorship of Bush/Cheney down. Make no mistake Bush/Cheney have set the USA back many years on many fronts.

"If you want more of the same..keep doing what yer doing"

Cheney and Rumsfeld were "kicking around" the Whitehouse during Nixon's Watergate scandal, [http://dir.salon.com...]
and its a safe bet they took copious notes on how to avoid similar problems in the future.

So when W got into office and brought along the former "Nixonians", their updated partisan driven strategy rolled out and rolled on with a rubber stamp congress:

Executive Branch power grabs w/record signing statements, wiretaps on steroids, the tamping down on dissension inside the ranks and in the media, and the latest report of partisan prosecution via DOJ including this study:  [http://www.epluribus...]

Thanks to Democratic Congressional Victories in 2006 we now have oversight. The work of Congressional Oversight is analogous to turning over a rock that has been sitting in the damp sentiment for some time. Once the rock is turned over, the critters underneath squirm around to dodge the light.

Only George W could make Nixon look good

Only Alberto Gonzolez could make John Ashcroft look good

Only Dick Cheney could you make you nostalgic for the days of Spiro Agnew.

Abu Gahrab
Valerie Plame
Illegal Wiretaps
More domestic spying
Walter Reed
Haliburton no bid contracts
political intimidation of US Attorneys

Is anyone else experience "Scandal Fatigue Syndrome?"

When it comes to incompetence, corruption, and general sleeze, the bush-cheney administration occupies a place all its own.  I've now been alive for 11 US Presidents.  I've never worried about the future of America like I do now.  In my opinion, bush-cheney have sold out our country and everything great that it stands for.  It will take us decades to overcome the mess that the bush-cheney administration has created.

While the suggestion that "Bush is Going to Get Us All Killed" for a bumper sticker evokes some muted fear for an unknown event in the distant future....I think an immediately appropriate sticker is "Bush is Going to Get All of Our Children Killed"....he has already started.

If this escalates further, no one should think that there will not be another draft.  It would be the only way, the only way to "finish the job" they insist must be finished.

  All of the mothers, both past and future, who have their child returned to them in a body bag suffer a fate worse than death.  This is all so terrifying and sad.

I have thought for a long time that Nixon was the worst president ever, but that George W. was doing his best to vie for the title.  Nixon merely subverted the Constitution and ran a criminal enterprise, W. did all that and also may very well have started WWIII in the most incendiary area of the world.  Nixon, by habit or by accident, told the truth about at least some things.  Haven't seen W. or his minions do that, ever.  They lie without pause or reflection, for any reason or no reason, and they're so bad at it, it's pathetic.  Unfortunately, our media have only recently and belatedly realized their responsibility to the truth, probably because they have been pulled along by the changing tide of public opinion and growing disgust among the public with the continuing scandals and lies.
I know compared to subverting the rule of law, etc., it pales in comparison, but it always bothered me that there was not more of an outcry when Cat Stevens was kicked out of the country.  I mean, the guy wrote Peace Train.  How much of a threat could he be?  Where's the shame?
By the way, maybe I missed it above, but what were Cheney and Rumsfeld doing during the Nixon administration?  I have tried to figure that out, but it seems that there is no information available.  I know they didn't just pop into politics in the Ford Administration -- what were their jobs?

Good question.  This is what I have found.
I don't know how reliable the source is.

Rumsfeld and Cheney both joined the Nixon Whitehouse in 1969, each after vigorously campaigning for Nixon. Rumsfeld was tapped by Nixon to direct the Office of Equal Opportunity in 1969. Rumsfeld's first act was to set up an office to spy on his employees. In his efforts to end granting of federal funds to politically "subversive" organizations, Rumsfeld set out to identify those "sympathetic" government employees.

Cheney also joined the Whitehouse in 1969 in the Office of Economic Opportunity and later as a Whitehouse aid. Both Cheney & Rumsfeld served Nixon from 1969 and later as Ford's chiefs of staff after the resignation.

Here is even more, starting with Nixon and moving forward.  It also includes others in this mess.

http://www.pbs.org/w...

Alberto Gonzales should be impeached.  The hearings would be an education to all Americans about the rule of law and the actual provisions of our Constitution, which are brilliant but must be enforced by all three branches of government, the press, and most importantly, the public.