some hesitation with the democratic caucus to jump on him too fast, too quickly, just out of the general sense of solidarity and loyalty. but as mark said, this was a guy who they didn't really need, they didn't -- he was a fellow without a lot of friends. i talked to someone connected to the white house. listen, he takes a lot of shots at us. we can live with that. he's arrogant. we don't like tham much and not a lot of goodwill around town even though he married into the clinton clan. so all that being equal, political calculations rule the day, and the democrats decided that it wasn't worth sticking out their necks for this guy that back in the clinton days all of these people who called on anthony weiner to resign all stood by president clinton and didn't want him to leave, because they still thought that