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In reply to the discussion: Why was Reagan not impeached for Iran Contra? [View all]1939
(1,683 posts)27. Reagan got more from a Democratic congress
than Jimmy Carter ever got. Carter and JFK had real problems connecting with and working with congress.
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It is a club, and you sure as hell are not part of it. But if you wanna feel really left
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#1
Impeached and jailed. But he wasnt because of that club you talk about, funny
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#8
It is a club and RW Dems like Lee Hamilton are just as much a part as Reagan. Perhaps more.
leveymg
Mar 2016
#65
Because Reagan went on television and confessed to trading arms for hostages
Tony_FLADEM
Mar 2016
#2
"My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true. But the facts and the evidence
StevieM
Mar 2016
#28
The Democrats were afraid to go after Saint Ronnie. At times Democrats can be craven.
BillZBubb
Mar 2016
#4
They knew what his mental capacity was and also knew and feared the BFEE behind the scenes.
libtodeath
Mar 2016
#6
The media was uncomfortable with it - they knew then he was showing signs of serious
blm
Mar 2016
#7
Took this nation off its path of citizen democracy and put it on the road towards full-on fascism.
blm
Mar 2016
#92
I"ve often wondered why Mena is the one part of Clinton's past that the most rabid Repubs wouldn't
Boomerproud
Mar 2016
#47
At the time, one news correspondent opined that the U. S. populace "gave him a pass."
John1956PA
Mar 2016
#15
What I understand is they questioned him about it and he didn't know anything..this was
shraby
Mar 2016
#23
Years later George W. Bush gave Poindexter a job in the War on Terror after 9/11
StevieM
Mar 2016
#34
Right. Poindexter made sure the trail (apparently) ended with him, unlike the Watergate hearings,
Mc Mike
Mar 2016
#37
Because imbeciles believed his grandpa act that he "didn't know anything about it"
tabasco
Mar 2016
#40
His grandpa act put a friendly face on the mafia that was running the country.
tabasco
Apr 2016
#109
Because William Casey, the person that authorized the weapons for hostages...
Lochloosa
Mar 2016
#49
Reagan was suffering from dementia. Bush Sr. was in all likelihood the real President.
jalan48
Mar 2016
#54
He and a lot of his cabinet used the now famous "I can't recall" defense under questioning....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2016
#61
Because they knew in advance to make sure he couldn't be. No one implicated him.
L. Coyote
Mar 2016
#62
When prosecutor Walsh (a Republican) realized how advanced Reagan's alzheimer's was he decided ...
raindaddy
Mar 2016
#64
Because then, as now, the dc dems are gutless appeasers. Every republican president since Nixon
Doctor_J
Mar 2016
#66
Open and shut case for high treason (which, not sorry Repubs, Iran-Contra very much was).
HughBeaumont
Mar 2016
#85
they couldnt, everyone would have seen how far his dementia had progressed.
Viva_La_Revolution
Mar 2016
#90