This morning’s Philadelphia edition of the Metro shows both sides getting it wrong on Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping. From the lively letters section, first the left:

It’s nice to see the constitutional experts in the press explain to us peons how President Bush will not be impeached for spying on Americans. Spying, last I checked, was an impeachable offense.

Well, no. It isn’t. Metro combines the letters with a quote from The Weekly Standard:

[L]eading spokesmen [sic] seem to have concluded that the terror threat is mostly imaginary. It is the threat to civil liberties that is the real danger… So are we really to believe that President Bush just sat around after 9/11 thinking, ’How can I aggrandize my powers?’ [and many more rhetorical questions].

In a word, yes. Our ingenuous leftie thinks spying is an impeachable offense. Our disingenuous rightie says the left is framing the issue as civil liberties.

No no no no no! The issue is: Bush broke the law! And in the first days of the scandal, his apologists not only admitted that, they were proud of it!

Say it again: Bush broke the law!

As Casey Stengel said: Can’t anyone here play this game?

NOTE Looks like the Daou scenario is working….