So what happens next? Would those who have stayed silent about executive overreach over the last seven years suddenly find religion? After years of legislative atrophy, would Congress spring into action and remember its supposed power of the purse? And what about Republicans? After having raged against a supposedly lawless President [would Republicans] suddenly find that they are actually okay with a strongman President, so long as he’s wearing the same color jersey that they are? He may be a lawless sonuvagun but, some of them would say, but he’s our lawless sonuvagun. Would the ends justify the means? The way that Congress thinks and talks about executive power over the last few years has been almost this sophomoric. It has been based overwhelmingly on the party tag of whoever happens to sit in the oval office at any given moment. Republicans, Democrats, us versus them. These are the political trenches, and the no-man’s land lies somewhere between this chamber, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. When your highest objective is advancing partisan lines on a map, it’s easy to forgive a president who oversteps his authority, so long as it’s your guy, and the one with authority is in your party.