Look, I’ll try to make it simple. The Bush administration isn’t going to willingly cooperate on the email matter. Nah.Gonna.Happen. So what is the remedy? We already know of one felony (obstruction of justice by Rove re: Fitz) and I have no doubt there are many more. Is the Congress coequal or not? Does the Judiciary committee work with the Intel committee or not (Feinstein sits on both)? Are Democrats always going to bring a knife to a gun fight or not? Talk is cheap. Pick up the phone, Senator Feinstein, and have a closed door chat with the NSA. Or, someone tell me a better way to get these emails. Also: SIM cards- the Bushies used Blackberries to send some of these emails. SIM cards are forever. Chutzpah isn’t the word I’d use, “arrogance” and “drunk on power” come to mind instead:

In a letter to Mr. Leahy and Representative John Conyers Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Fielding, the White House counsel, said the administration was prepared to produce e-mail from the national committee, but only as part of a “carefully and thoughtfully considered package of accommodations” — in other words, only as part of the offer for Mr. Rove and the others to appear in private.

Mr. Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, issued a tart reply: “The White House position seems to be that executive privilege not only applies in the Oval Office, but to the R.N.C. as well. There is absolutely no basis in law or fact for such a claim.”

Get some stones, Dems. It’s time to throw down.