I have a lot of respect for conservatives who ditch the talking points to tell it like it is. I have no problem taking on Democrats when they need a good spanking.

So here's a hat tip to Ed Morrisey at Captain's Quarters who cuts through the BS in regard to the torture tapes destruction and the seemingly obvious obstruction of justice:

The order to destroy these tapes in defiance of Congress and the courts are very significant to the rule of law, and it deserves a full investigation. The CIA has had to retract its claim before a federal court that it had no such tapes, and the destruction came too close to Congressional debate on waterboarding to be coincidental. Someone had in mind to destroy evidence, for whatever purpose, and that is clearly obstruction of justice.

We may not like the politicians that get elected to Congress, and we may believe them unworthy of their oversight roles. Individually, that would indeed be hard to rebut. However, we base our form of government on the rule of law, and we expect those in leadership positions to remain subject to the same laws as the rest of us. That's why Bill Clinton got impeached. It's why whomever decided to operate outside the law, destroy evidence, and provide false testimony to a federal court needs to be held responsible in some manner for those actions.

If we allow elected officials and federal agencies to ignore laws simply because we like the outcome, then we do not have a rule of law but a popular tyranny of whim. We will have handed the federal government a power that we will rue when other hands are on the rudder. Let the Department of Justice and Congress conduct their lawful investigations and the chips fall where they may.

If the Bushies have lost Captain Ed, what next?