This is a thirteen minute segment from yesterday's episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews. If you're waiting for members of the press to "grow a pair," you might enjoy seeing one of those all-too-rare occasions when Matthews acts like a newsman. It usually only happens when an interviewee uses a historical reference without knowing what it means and/or evades the question of whether he stands by what he's said or done. The tap dancer in this case is Rep. Eric Cantor, a Republican from Virginia who commits the latter sin. He doesn't want to respond as to whether or not he still supports a man named George W. Bush.
A general rule of thumb in politics: When someone says, "This is no time for finger-pointing," it's because they know and don't like where that finger will point.
