Artful Dodger: I still don't know what the rationale behind walking weapons across the boarder was supposed to accomplish. We wanted drug lords and other criminals to have these weapons because... ? I can't get past the because. It's like, say, you have a headache, so someone tells you to put your head in a meat grinder and turn the handle, because...

Doesn't matter 'why' you should do it, because you shouldn't do it... it's a bad idea. They've been trying to get Holder to talk about this for over a year, but the guy has been able to stonewall them for, what has it been, 18 months now? And barely a peep about it from the major news outlets.

I know what Holder should say. He should say, "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time."