And who didn’t see this coming?

“It’s unfortunate that congressional Democrats continue to choose the route of confrontation,” said presidential spokesman Tony Fratto. Yeah, keep this up buddy and they’re going to choose something a little more severe - and have a real nice percentage of the country in their corner.

Let’s be clear: The White House is refusing to turn over documentation relating to the firing of federal prosecutors specifically because that documentation is likely to show that the decisions were based entirely on political considerations - and perhaps a whole lot more. It would expose the sausage-making process, reveal it to be every bit as rotten as evidence has long suggested it is. But more than that - particularly in the light is may shed on warrantless wiretapping, we may in fact find out that the claims in this New York Times story of yesterday are simply untrue - that recent surveillance activities have indeed been used against those believed to pose a political threat, as well as a terrorist threat.

Stay tuned for this one, it may be the fight of the summer.