With Watergate and Deep Throat back in the news, and new revelations about Bush-related outrages popping up on a regular basis, discussions about scandals are ubiquitous. With this in mind…<\/p>\n
This week’s topic: What is the best political scandal in American history?<\/p>\n
How does Watergate stack up against Iran-Contra? Teapot Dome<\/a> vs. XYZ Affair<\/a>? Where would L’Affaire de Lewinsky rank on the list? What about congressional doozies like Abscam<\/a>? <\/p>\n Any chance that Bush’s scandals — Valerie Plame, Abu Ghraib, non-existent WMD, Pundit Payola, Niger Forgeries, Halliburton’s No-Bid Bonanza — will be remembered among the all-time greats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With Watergate and Deep Throat back in the news, and new revelations about Bush-related outrages popping up on a regular basis, discussions about scandals are ubiquitous. With this in mind… This week’s topic: What is the best political scandal in American history? How does Watergate stack up against Iran-Contra? Teapot Dome vs. XYZ Affair? Where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}