that there were once grounds for the impeachment of President Reagan on charges of capital treason (yes, they can hang you for this) because he had (during the Iran-Contra affair)

1) Attempted to "provide aid and comfort to the enemy" by selling advanced weapons to Iranian terrorists who had held our people hostage...

2) ...in order to carry out an illegal war in Central America against the specific orders and instructions of Congress.

The Conservative's response was not to question my facts, or argue that the activities had been carried out without the knowledge of Mr Reagan (the official alibi). No, his response was that Reagan was entitled to do that because he was fighting Communism and the traitors in Congress refused to do their duty.

If you can justify any illegal activity based on your own personal political preferences rather than the lawful statutes of a freely elected and totally legitimate government, then lying and falsifying the public record in order to frustrate a political opponent is chicken feed. These people will stop at nothing to get their way, and they will cloak themselves in fiscal responsibility, Christian piety and patriotic hypocrisy to make sure they can get away with it.