Rumsfeld stepping down

The first positive bit of fallout from the Democrats taking the House and probably the Senate: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down.


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Submitted by crazymonk on Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:07am.

See? Britney isn't the only person in America who figured out it was long past time to dump a good-for-nothing man.

Alina | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:10am

God it's a beautiful day.

New York Anthony | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:14am

It's interesting that the GOP lost the elections because of their moderate members. Chaffee, the New England GOP MCs, and a few midwestern moderates took the brunt of the offensive. What will this mean for the GOP minority? It is now a Southern party. I smell another Civil War.

Geoff | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:27am

It appears that the Democrats are going to take the Senate too, baring a shady recount. Hooray!

Slater | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 11:15am

Britney was BRILLIANT in timing her divorce announcement. Barely anybody even noticed the news scroll below the election results. She absolutely avoided a media firestorm.

For the time being my impression of her has matched its historic heights from the 15 second period when I (and America) thought she had married George from Seinfeld. I'm sure it'll go back down soon, but for the time being, she's good.

Ingen Angiven | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 11:23am

Not that I like Rumsfeld, but this seems sort of like him taking the blame for anger at Bush's policies.

Lorelei | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 11:28am

I don't think he would've stepped down if the Republicans held the House and Senate. They just wanted to avoid a bitter battle where the public would've been on the side of the Democrats.

crazymonk | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 11:38am

Now observe closely as very little changes in Iraq.

Jesse | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 12:14pm

Really, I see the Britney divorce announcement as a metaphor for the 2006 elections.

Alina | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 1:43pm

whoa, whoa, wait. i understand you're not showing sympathy for rummy, lorelei, but rumsfeld is taking the blame for his own policies. you want to pick public enemy #3 when it comes to iraq and the shittiness of how this whole shitty business has been carried out, it's clearly rumsfeld. he should have been canned before the end of term 1.

come to think of it, he never should have been hired.

come to think of it, neither should have Grand Asshole #1.

jbg | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 2:45pm

Maybe I just incorrectly think the buck still stops at the Oval Office. Though let's HOPE Bush wasn't micromanaging the war.

Lorelei | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 4:00pm

bush doesn't seem like the micromanaging type to me. or even the managing type, really.

Jon May | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 6:55pm

what? sorry! can't hear you above all my cutting and running.

democratic congress | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 7:04pm

Do you think there's any chance he was macromanaging?

Ingen Angiven | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 7:13pm

wait! what happened with the marijuana campaign? did you win? i guess i'll google it. (did you know google has been officially added, as a verb, to the OED?)

pipsqueak | Wed, 11/08/2006 - 9:29pm
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