Buxon

So, the National Review calls Bush scary because he uses Nixonian politics. Now Salon.com has John Dean, fromer White House counsel to Nixon, calling Bush scarier than Nixon. My favorite line comes early, "Nixon only abused executive privilege (the power of a president to withhold information from his constitutional co-equals) after Watergate, while Bush and Cheney have sought to abuse the privilege from the outset." I wonder how it feels to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum...

Amusingly timed, John Waters said that John Whitaker, undersecretary of the interior to Nixon, is his uncle in the book I've just finished, Shock Value.