You've seriously got to be kidding me.

Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress "trying to protect their own" if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI's raid of a representative's office.

Yet not long after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded on Wednesday the bureau return documents it took, White House aides were in talks with Hastert's staff about the possible transfer of the material, perhaps to the House ethics committee, according to several Republican officials.

This is not the sort of thing that inspires trust in our elected leaders.

If the FBI affadavits are accurate, and I think it's safe to assume they are, then Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was caught on tape taking a $100,000 bribe. Investigators later found $90,000 of that wrapped in aluminum foil in his freezer.

This is the case that you want to use to test the separation of powers claim?

Are these people nuts?