We've Only Just Begun (we hope)

Daily Kos has an excerpted transcript of the Carl Bernstein interview on the Colbert Report. As he says, Stephen Colbert does O'Reilly better than O'Reilly:

Stephen Colbert: Compare this presidency to Nixon's presidency. What could Nixon learn from Bush?

Carl Bernstein: They both have the same problem...telling the truth.

Colbert: Wha...what is that, courage??

Bernstein: I think both would've been better served to have told the truth, especially in wartime.

Colbert: Well, the problem is that right now, we're dealing with a secret enemy. So we can't necessarily tell the truth, can we? If we tell the truth, and our enemies don't tell the truth...well, then they've got one up on us, right?

Bernstein: I think the same thing happened in both the Nixon administration and the Bush administration.

Colbert: No, Nixon got in trouble. I don't think Bush is.

Bernstein: Wait awhile!

Colbert: Oh really?

Bernstein: I think he's in trouble. I think he's in trouble because of the same reason as Nixon. He doesn't tell the truth. His vice president doesn't tell the truth. His party is starting to have trouble with it the same way Nixon had trouble with his party. And we're in a terrible situation in a war where we need a president who tells the truth.

(Emphasis added). Also, Comedy Central has a video clip of the interview.

Could it be? Bernstein certainly has more credibility than his former colleague Woodward. After all, Watergate didn't happen immediately after the break-in. It took a while for the Nixon Administration to crash and burn. The accumulation of events -- a war based upon bad intelligence that is spiraling out of control, the federal deficit out of control, Katrina, erupting scandals from leaks in the Administration, plus those from greedy Republican legislators, secrets and spying -- all may eventually cause the same problems for Bush that could cause a major fall.

I could at least dream, can't I?