Alternet has published the article Don’t Count Out the GOP From Trying to Sink Obama’s Historic Iran Deal: They’ve Done It Before by Thom Hartmann. Those of you who know who Thom Hartmann is, know that he is not some left wing crazy person.

The sub-head to the post is

Republican attempts to sabotage a Democratic president’s deal with Iran are nothing new.

The post opens with the paragraph

Ronald Reagan – or at least his campaign – committed treason to become president, and normalizing relations with Iran may expose the whole thing.

The fact that Ronald Reagan did this has been well known almost since the moment he did it. There are details and corroboration of these facts that Hartmann discusses that I did not know about.

Later on, the article goes on to talk about what Nixon did to get elected. In the article you can listen to the recording of a phone call between then President Lyndon Johnson and then Senate Majority Leader Everett Dirksen.

President Johnson: Now, I can identify ‘em, because I know who’s doing this. I don’t want to identify it. I think it would shock America if a principal candidate [Nixon] was playing with a source like this [South Vietnam] on a matter this important. I don’t want to do that.

But if they’re going to put this kind of stuff out, they ought to know that we know what they’re doing. I know who they’re talking to, and I know what they’re saying. …Some of our folks, including some of the old China lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying please notify the president [of South Vietnam] that if he’ll hold out ’til November the second [US election day] they could get a better deal. Now, I’m reading their hand, Everett. I don’t want to get this in the campaign. And they oughtn’t to be doin’ this. This is treason.

Sen. Dirksen: I know.

Why do Democrats cover up Republican treason? Never mind calling them Tea Party Republicans, how about calling them Treason Party Republicans?