You really know how to steal my heart. You know that I find it adorable when you suggest, like you did last month in your Senate confirmation hearings, that the president can ignore laws passed by Congress, based on national security.

Okay, you didn't say that. But you did a great runaround by saying, according to The Wall Street Journal, the president "'does not stand above the law. But the law emphatically includes the Constitution.' And that Constitutional authority, he said, includes the President's power to defend the country."

What a quandry! The president has to uphold the law, but to uphold the law, sometimes, apparently, he has to break it. But when he does break it, it's for our own good. Just trust us.

Because you'll have to trust us. Because we won't tell you how the president is breaking the law, whether or not he is breaking the law, and what plots have or haven't been foiled. Because we, as the American people, have no right to know how the Constitution is being broken by the officials we elected, or whether or not that breakage is even warranted.

You know all the right words!

There are some people who might suggest that the president is never, ever allowed to break the law, under any circumstances, because the Constitution never allows the president to break the law, and makes absolutely no distinction whatsoever between the president's powers in times of war or in times of peace, lending no credence to bogus theories that the president somehow has brand-new powers in wartime.

Those same people might use the conservative straw man of "activist judges" against you, suggesting that you might turn George W. Bush into an "activist president" who looks to non-existent laws and poorly-reasoned theories to overturn actual laws passed by Congress.

But that would be shameful of them. They don't know that you're really trying to protect the country, and that keeping us in ignorance serves only to keep our innocence about how our Constitution is being thwarted so as to prevent the terrorists from thwarting the Constitution that you already thwarted.

I love you, Mikey.