Did the President actually ask Congress to investigate him?

Several reactions to President Trump's bizarre accusation that the Obama administration ordered an illegal wiretap on Trump Tower last year, from left to right:

• Brian Beutler thinks Trump's weird tweets "royally screwed" the Republicans in Congress. 
• Josh Marshall says the claims are just ridiculous, and Trump kneecapped himself doing it.
• Jennifer Rubin wonders whether Trump is "bonkers, paranoid, or trapped?"
• The Chicago Tribune agrees that Trump essentially asked Congress to investigate himself, with potentially disastrous consequences for his own administration.

Meanwhile, Greg Sargent sees this as more evidence that Trump has "total contempt for American democracy." That does seem to be the case.