As recently as yesterday, when attorney general Michael Mukasey was busy dissembling and dodging on whether waterboarding is really all that nasty, the senate judiciary committee still had plans to begin voting on a new deputy for Mukasey.
But now it seems that Mukasey's evasion, which reached Gonzales-like proportions, may have put the confirmation of his new No 2 in limbo. The committee hearing to vote on Mark Filip, who is in line to become deputy attorney general, has just been "postponed by the call of the chair".
