Chicken, or...

the definition of compromise is caving.

In the meantime, maybe some enterprising reporters somewhere could start asking administration officials - and their stalwart Senate allies - why it is that they are so eager to avoid a judicial ruling on the legality of this program if they are so confident that the president did nothing wrong. People who are unjustly accused of violating the law are eager to have their name cleared. Why isn't the president?