Shut 'Er Down

Wow, I stepped offline for a few, and apparently this happened.

2:25 Update: Sen. Leahy interrupts Grassley to say, "we've just recevied word that the Republicans have objected under the Senate rules to this meeting continuing. I think that's unfortunate, but I will follow the rules of the Senate... The Republicans are the ones who don't want to have the hearings, the Republicans have the right under the rules to do that.... we will stand in recess until the Senate recesses."

And then it was almost immediately reversed. But clearly the instinct was to shut 'er down, that Sampson was killing the cover story, that he was sealing Gonzales' fate, that he was giving up too much.

Democrats probably straightened them out with a simple "Do you really want to go to bat for this White House?"

And they fell in line.