Is Media Matters Obama's Watergate?

A full, complete and thorough congressional investigation -- just as was done with the Senate Watergate Committee -- is in order. Will Harry Reid do this? Of course not. So the ball bounces to the House. And what will they be looking for? As with Nixon in Watergate, these congressional investigators will be looking for one, very simple thing -- a simple thing expressed in multiples of ways by multiples of people. That would be?

Abuse of power.

You can bet that a lot of people will be reading David Brock's book just as Americans once avidly listened to Nixon's tapes. Matching the names in this book to the names on that enemies list.

Why?

To find the smoking gun.

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