David Gergen actually said...

"presidents don't do that."

"I felt -- in the military, we called this dereliction of duty to walk off the job."

"It's unfortunate for the country that the breakdown of relationships between the Congress and the presidency have descended to this level."

"That's a good question, Anderson. My sense of it is that what we're seeing is something new and is an extension of the stonewalling policy that the administration has adopted."