See, now we should be worried

Rep. Bob Walker, R-Pennsylvania says, "The American people should be deeply concerned that a decision to conduct a raid on Congress was made consciously and evidently at high levels inside the Justice Department and the FBI."

James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin titled his hearing into the matter, "Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"

A couple of points. One, my post below was somewhat sarchastic. Now I'm not so sure I was that off. Two, I've posted lots of times about the slippery slope of Executive power. The same congress that rubberstamps everything having to do with increasing Executive power and decreasing the Fightin' Fourth is surprised when the EB makes an agressive interpretation when it comes to them. Wow, didn't see that coming. Stensenbrenner has a mixed history. While he was soft on the PATRIOT Act, he did have some hard questions for Gonzalez on the NSA issue, I couldn't find much on Walker (this is a problem with working a blogging at the same time).

In the end, how can Congress be surprised that the EB doesn't respect them when W has 750 "signing statements" to his credit, including ones that put him above the anti-Torture law, oversight for the PATRIOT Act, and other congressional oversight provisions. Maybe, just maybe, if Congress took its adversarial role with the EB seriously, the EB would respect it more. Personally, I think Congress should stop acting like a 16 year old girl smitten with the senior QB.