Of course, the reason that lying to Congress is a felony is because Congress is composed of the representatives of the American people, and when executive branch officials lie to Congress, they are lying to the country. They subvert the entire constitutional order by preventing the American people from exercising overisight over the executive branch through their representatives in Congress, and it turns the President into an unchecked, unaccountable ruler. That is precisely why lying to Congress is considered to be virtuous and an entitlement by this administration and the movement which spawned it (the truly bizarre demands for Lewis Libby's pardon further reflect not merely an indifference, but this same admiration, for those who lie in pursuit of The Right-Wing Cause).
Illegal behavior -- in the form of, among other things, continuous and deliberate deceit of the Congress -- is pervasive at the highest levels of the Bush Justice Department and it has plainly become a central part of the Republican ethos. It's become a plank in their ideology, literally. Is it really necessary even to make the case as to why we cannot allow that, and must begin -- now -- enforcing the law and imposing consequences for this rampant law-breaking?
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