OK, so Monica Goodling is the first Justice Department official in history to remain in office while invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege. But the Democrats just won't leave her alone.

In the Senate, they want to know whether she'll cooperate with an internal Justice Department investigation into the U.S. attorney firings. If she does or she doesn't, it's pretty clear she ought to be fired.

And in the House, they're not convinced by her lawyer's justification for taking the Fifth. So they want to have her come over and explain it herself.