Word: contras
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...this another 'adopt a contra' pitch?" I complained. "Because I already send $15 a month and Jorge Julio sends me postcards from Honduras. I do my part...
...committing an egregious error by using this tactic. After all, the comparisons between this scandal and the Watergate break-in have nothing to do with any similarity between the two crimes. In fact, on one level, Watergate doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the Contra funding. Watergate involved petty squabbles between political parties while the Contra funding was a gross usurpation of Congress' power of the purse, a patent violation of the Constitution...
While Democrats cannot yet know for sure whether Reagan knew of the Contra funding, they are utter imbeciles if they fail to make concerted efforts to find out. They are faced with their greatest opportunity to crack Reagan's teflon armor. All they have to do is look at the polls. It is no coincidence that the 20 point dive in Reagan's approval rating comes at a time when the majority of Americans believe that he knew about the funding...
WASHINGTON--Despite the storm over the Iran-Contra dealings and the drop in President Reagan's standing in the polls, Democrats are shying away from a frontal political attack on the president...
They can do that now. But the picture may change in January when the Democrats reap the results of the 1986 election and take control of the Senate, and with it, the leadership of the Iran-Contra investigation...