Wednesday, November 8th, 2006...11:10 am
Wow, I Guess Things Are Changing Already
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Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall is reporting rumors of Donald Rumsfeld’s impending resignation.
I bet it’s so he can spend more time with his kids.
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November 8th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Bush has already announced Robert Gates will replace Rummy.
So I guess Dubya was just waiting for the election to pull the trigger. Interesting. I’m sure we’ll hear the Monday morning QBs wonder if it would have made a difference if he’d left before Tuesday.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:30 am
RUMMY has indeed RESIGNED!! Mark him as the FIRST post-election casualty!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/rumsfeld.ap/index.html
November 8th, 2006 at 11:35 am
It is pretty sweet.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:39 am
This is just so typical. We lost so let’s lop off a head or two and the people will think we got their message. Sorry, Rumsfeld head even on a silver platter is not enough!
Quite frankly, if they were smart, they would put Dick Cheney on the sacrificial altar. For one, he’s the worst of the lot. And for two, they could pick a new VP who would have incumbent status in 2008. The problem is, of course, that Cheney has the goods on all of them and is hardly willing to resign.
Anyhow, good bye and good riddance to Donald Rumsfeld.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Liza, I suspect that Cheny WILL resign in the next 6 months or so, allowing Bush to nominate someone he feels can use the veep position as a springboard to the 08 presidential nomination. I have been saying this for quite a while now.
Bush faces a hard row ahead with the Gates nomination, as he has some hardcore baggage to carry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates
November 8th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Is it worse to have Rumsfeld answering questions in front of a Dem-led House “oversight” committee as the sitting Sec Def or as the former Sec Def?
November 8th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
AZWILDCAT88–
Can the President just appoint someone to the Vice Presidency if his Vice President resigns? I thought the Speaker of the House was next in the line of succession? [I'm ignorant on this--please clue me in if you know.]