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In her own words:

"Resources were given. Authorities existed. We should have prevented this."

Yes, you have pointed to this statement from her--and what a conclusion she states there all by itself even before they've gathered all the information they were ostensibly seeking. We know what she meant and Tom Kean was disgraceful yesterday saying she's been acting as one of the more non-partisan members of the committee. The fool doesn't realize (I truly don't think he doesn't and it's not malicious agreement) that she meant the Bush administration could have "prevented this".

Then add the classified memo that she wrote AND WITHHELD from the commission and that sums up why she should be off immediately.

I have to say I am not pleased entirely with Greg Kelly's report on Fox this morning giving a report on this but ending with "but other commission members have worked in government yet this is the only member whose resignation has been called for by a sitting member of Congress". I did not care for tacking on her talking point at the end. It does not fit and is not appropriate.

I agree that tacking on Gorelick's talking point is misplaced. Kelly should know better, it's not a complex thought process simply because it deals with "conflict of interest."

Some commissioners worked in the Legislature, and one, Jim Thompson, is a former Gov. of Illinois who is now member of a firm defending American Airlines. The legislators, as Sensenbrenner pointed out, were one voice in a 100 (Senate) and one in over 400 (house) - their participation in security and intelligence policy is clearly of a different flavor and magnitude than Gorelick's. And Gorelick's firm defends the House of Saud against a suit brought by 600 victims of 9/11. That is more closely on par with Thompson's firm defending AA, but her participation in setting government policy makes her conflict magnitudes more significant than any tangential conflict created by clients of their respective law firms.

We can't let this be swept under the rug. People like Kelly deserve heat and a crash course in understanding why Gorelick's conflict demands that she resign while any other commissioner's conflict does not, at least according to information available to date.