Well, if this one doesn’t stick I’m sure there will be plenty more *gates in the coming years. It should be interesting.
I'd like to start a new word extension besides "gate." Mainly because they all remind everyone of Watergate. It's not as though Watergate was the beginning of political scandals (see FDR admin for example). Maybe we can attach "Blag" to the beginning or current scandals? Open to ideas.