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It will never happen.

Probably won't, and I'm not even sure that it should.

My thought is that Gorelick does more harm to the commission, which is really nothing more than a 21st Century updating of the Spanish Inquisition, by sitting on it than by being forced off of it.

At the best the commission is going to produce a watered-down rehash of the work already done by the Congressional Joint Committee. At the worst it's going to come out with an extremely partisan document aimed at guaranteeing a specific political outcome. In either case, it's going to be irrelevant and meaningless and should rightfully be dismissed for the joke that it is.

But in the event that the commissions report have partisan repercussions negative to the Bush Administration, having Gorelick remain on the committee and have a hand in producing it's report makes it that much easier to dismiss the report out of hand. With Ben Veniste, Kerrey and Roemer remainining on the commission, Gorelick's removal gains nothing, while possibly having the effect of INCREASING it's credibility.

The pressure being put on her and the commission right now is good because it keeps the emphasis on the commissions' lack of credibility and integrity ... but there has to be care that the pressure doesn't go past the threshold where Gorelick will actually resign.

Btw, on a side note, a key Gorelick Memo point that I'm not hearing a lot made out of is how she claims it was a 1980's reg, but in the memo specifically states that HER policy is going beyond what is legally required ...