Yeah, That'd Be Awful

NYTimes:

“I hope we don’t find out that people sat on information just so they could leak it here a month before the election,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas said on CNN. But he acknowledged that he had no evidence of this.

Get used to that kind of quote from Republican Congressmen. It's the only kind of thing they can possibly say about this, besides We Fucked Up. You can also learn a lot about a news organization by seeing whether or not they include the followup clarification that I bolded in the quote.

I sure hope we don't find out that the Bush Administration lied to the American people about the reasons for taking us into Iraq.

Update: ThinkProgress has the transcript of Wolf interviewing Republican representative Patrick McHenry from NC who's pulling this shit. To his credit (probably because he has heard it a trillion times in the last week), he keeps insisting that he provide evidence. Listen to the argument style of a 10-year-old:

BLITZER: Do you have any evidence to back that charge up?

MCHENRY: No, no, actually, if the Democrats had any issue with saying this, putting all the facts out on the table, they would say, certainly, I’ll testify under oath that I had no involvement in it. They’ve said no.

BLITZER: Well, you don’t have any evidence, though, right?

MCHENRY: Well, look at the fact points.

BLITZER: Yes or no, do you have any evidence, Congressman?

MCHENRY: Do you have any evidence that they weren’t involved?

BLITZER: I’m just asking if you’re just throwing out an accusation or if you have any hard evidence.

MCHENRY: No. It’s a question, Wolf. The question remains, were they involved? And if they were not involved, they need to say clearly. And it’s a question. It’s not an accusation.

How low can you go?