Is the Reichstag burning?

"If a nukular weapon goes off in Washington DC, or New York, or Los Angeles, it will burn up the Constitution as it does. So I'm very happy we have a President that's gonna wiretap people's communication with people overseas to make sure they are not gonna blow up one of our cities."

- Congressman Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA), on CNN's "The Situation Room," defending the Bush administration's choice to continue violating the Constitution of the United States.