I wonder if anyone here or there happens to know who is David Gregory's most senior journalism professor and if anyone has (or can) ask him what he thinks of this. Either he or she is part of the problem, or would probably be willing to go on record saying Mr Gregory you twit that's not what I taught you!

It is pretty common for children of athletes to become athletes. Lawyers kids often study law. Doctor's kids have an advantage in getting into medical school. Look at the alumnus network attached to any university (particularly Ivy League) -- much of it is how to get the past-student's kids enrolled. Families of actors are common, from today's Oscars to vaudeville two centuries back. Most of us know families of cops. And, of course, military brats often end up in the military both commissioned and non-commissioned. (re: McCain)

How did Will Robinson get into space, after all, when the rest of us were stuck here on earth doing algebra homework?

I'll agree that the career of a politician is different in many ways, but it is the same with all occupations that require (or merely benefit from) a mentor to move along. It is more likely a family member will be a mentor than a stranger. Politics is all about connections at a high level, and if your Dad or Mom was successful at that then that is what your inheritance will include. It would be stupid not to take advantage of it. (Test example: who has a better chance of personally know four heads of state in Europe, me or Chelsea Clinton? How about me versus one of the Bush twins? Each case, no contest.)

What we really should be focused on is whether the politician in question will keep the deal he or she made when you voted for them. I'll take a scion that keeps his campaign promises over a maverick that is either corrupt or doesn't know what he is doing.

Glenn, any chance in the near term of you doing an interview with Phillipe Sands, author of "Torture Team?" I heard some of his talk with Terry Gross and was quite impressed, but of course there were a lot of questions she didn't ask that she should have.

But that's not guaranteed at all -- whether they'd be willing to come in and quash an ongoing investigation of this type.

That's not what I would be asking for. We should be demanding that Holder re-hire the guy at a more senior position than before, grant back-pay, and put him in charge of protecting whistle-blowers.

You think the Republicans would settle for less, were the positions reversed? I don't think so. The would add a Medal of Freedom to the deal.

If nothing else Holder and Obama should be thinking about how they will look when the Hollywood blockbuster on the story comes out.

Whatever cards they have to play, Republicans play them to the hilt. They have utterly no compunction about being inconsistent. There is no end to the list of principles that they will totally reverse.

They will feel quite differently now about filibusters. And the nuclear option.

When their guy is ahead by a few hundred votes, the right thing to do is for the Democrat to bow out gracefully for the good of the nation. When the situation is reversed, lawsuits galore.

Let's see how they feel now about transparency of the executive branch.

Anyone else?

Let's see hwo deferential Gregory is when questioning Democrats when they are in power.

I read somewhere about Cheney that he proved that stonewalling works as long as you don't mind a 13% approval rating.

We are talking about the guy who:

1. Successfully shut down any GAO scrutiny into his office.

2. Established secrecy to the level that nobody knows how many people the VP Office employs.

3. Invented a new Senatorial verb: go "Cheney" yourself.

4. Beat Patrick Fitzgerald when all the basic facts of the case were known.

5. Got all correspondence to the president to go through his office.

6. His energy task force minutes have still never been released, again even though most of the details are common knowledge.

7. Claimed and got executive privilege while simultaneously claiming himself to be a super-constitutional branch of government and above any oversight.

That's just off the top of my head. I am sure there are many more.

I have seen pictures trucks for shredder services at the VP residence. Does anyone think that those trucks have stopped coming? Does anyone think that this set of individuals would care in the slightest about any order to not destroy evidence? I don't.

OK, then. Cheney seems to enjoy telling people to cheney-off just for the pleasure of it. Let's give him all the pleasure he can handle.

Apparently the media has no idea on how to "sell" the story. When we were marching into Iraq the story was all win win win. Everyone wants to be on the winning side and rooting for the winning team.

And it turns out that there is no win in Iraq -- just different degrees of losing. So who wants to read about that? Even worse, the they have to say that leadership that prevailed in two elections are evil sonofabitches that YOU (and we) supported! You think corporate-owned media that can be felled with Janet Jackson's nipple has enough courage to run with a story like that?