In the short run, maybe, but in the long run it would make things even more of a shitstorm to deal with. Do you really want that? To look like a coward who can't own up to his own actions? To make yourself untrustworthy? I know it's hard--I already said so--but that doesn't make my points any less valid or true.

[Yeah nope, he ain't budging. You don't get a free pass just because things turned flushed.]