The Republicans haven't even yet won control of the House of Representatives, yet the left-wing press is already racing to attribute the Republican Party's impending gains to criminal behavior on the scale of Watergate. A managing editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, wrote the cover story for yesterday's Times Week in Review section, quoting campaign finance advocate Fred Wertheimer and asserting, "the fund-raising practices that earned people convictions in Watergate — giving direct corporate money to a campaign and doing so secretly — are back in a different form in 2010."
The Republicans haven't even yet won control of the House of Representatives, yet the left-wing press is already racing to attribute the Republican Party's impending gains to criminal behavior on the scale of Watergate. A managing editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, wrote the cover story for yesterday's Times Week in Review section, quoting campaign finance advocate Fred Wertheimer and asserting, "the fund-raising practices that earned people convictions in Watergate — giving direct corporate money to a campaign and doing so secretly — are back in a different form in 2010."