[ambrose]

Might suggest they weren't getting anything useful (i.e., material to slime Bush with), so they took a walk.

[NYC Republican]

More from Drudge...

The Oval Office session began at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 12:40 p.m., and two Democrat commission members -- Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman, and Bob Kerrey -- walked out! In a written statement, Kerrey said he left early to attend 'a previously scheduled meeting with Senator Pete Domenici on Capitol Hill'... Hamilton left Bush/Cheney to meet with the Canadian Prime Minister...

[cajungirl]

You know, good manners are gone. I would think a meeting with the President over matters of vital national security, a meeting about 911 would trump anything short of your wife, mother or child dying. I would think a meeting with the President would trump anything. I remember when hubby was in the army, I was advanced pregnant and wanted to miss a "tea" with the general's wife and was told in no uncertain terms that one did not turn down the general's wife. Surely the President is at least that important.