I'm not the only one….

…giving the "I" word another look. Barrons imagines what just days ago may have seemed impossible, and they get right to the heart of the matter.

Administration lawyers and the president himself have tortured the Constitution and extracted a suspension of the separation of powers.

They're right. The deeds involved, however heinous, pale beside the principle.

It is important to be clear that an impeachment case, if it comes to that, would not be about wiretapping, or about a possible Constitutional right not to be wiretapped. It would be about the power of Congress to set wiretapping rules by law, and it is about the obligation of the president to follow the rules in the Acts that he and his predecessors signed into law. (emphasis mine)

The rule of law is at stake. Nothing less. It's time to confront old Ben Franklin's challenge and decide whether the republic is worth keeping. And if not?

If we don't discuss the program and the lack of authority for it, we are meeting the enemy -- in the mirror.

Was Pogo prescient again?