Circling the wagons?

AP: WASHINGTON - The FBI's raid on a congressman's office is rippling through Capitol Hill, with majority Republicans in the House complaining to a GOP president and predicting a constitutional showdown in the Supreme Court.

FBI agents searched Jefferson's office in pursuit of evidence in a bribery investigation. The search warrant, signed by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan, was based on an affidavit that said agents found $90,000 in cash wrapped and stashed in the freezer of Jefferson's home.

Jefferson has not been indicted and has denied wrongdoing. The search brought Republican and Democratic leaders together in a rare alliance, fighting what they branded a breach of constitutional boundaries between branches of government.

I've been pretty much avoiding political topics of late, something I have done for most of my adult life, actually.

I find this unusual display of bipartisan unity somewhat amusing, in that it has nothing to do with serving the public, and everything to do with self-serving politicians.

That is, it would be amusing, except for the fact that it's a sad commentary on the condition of Congress...which has even lower approval ratings than the President.

Of course, approval ratings are based on polls, which are often worded to achieve the results desired by the pollsters.

Nobody is above the law; if members of Congress are innocent of any wrongdoing, they have nothing to fear.

Unfortunately, a lot of them are probably running scared right about now...