No it wouldn't have. In fact it would have been disasterous. The press would ignore the facts as they have already demonstrated, and then come down hard on why the NSA was making public Justice Department Memos...Questioned the motives and timing ad nauseum
You would have never heard the end of it.
What would have been better would have been for Ashcroft to precede Condi and have had them testifying on the same day.
Gorelick's knickers would have been in a twist, and I believe it would be safe to assume that she would have been rendered slighty more domesticated...and certainly more impotent.