You're on the money.
Nothing is political about Dashcle's desire for information before he commits to what he already committed to back in September.
If it was political he would have simply asked Bush at his last breakfast meeting, "WASUP? ", intsead he did what every thoughtful American Senator/Majority Leader should do in this situation. Go on national Televison and start spreading doubts and seeds of division so that our enemy can see that we are not exactly united.