the beginning of the end

Take a gander at these op-ed headlines:

"The President Surrenders"
"The Diminished President"
"To Escape Chaos, A Terrible Deal"

...contained in those links is enough reading, so I won't say too much here...except for one word that stuck out to me from one of these columns that I failed to use, but it so perfectly sums up what this is all turning out to be: extortion.