Reagan's backers DID point all that out in public, Walt. Why did Oliver North have a "shredding party"?
Why did Bush I pardon five people just before his adminstration ended?
The Reagan administration did secretly fund -- with U.S. government property -- an army -- in --secret--, got it?
These facts are not at issue. But it is interesting to see you try and rationalize something away besides the treason of the slave power.
Walt
I see that all you can do is evade the issue. Tell me, Walt. Where in the Constitution that you hate so much does it say that Congress can legislate the president's own personal policy for him? Where in the Constitution that you hate so much does it say that the Congress can veto any given executive policy on any whim or initiative of their own? It doesn't. Just like it doesn't permit the president to unilaterally suspend habeas corpus.