CHANGE!!!!!

This day just keeps getting better!

Perhaps the even less qualified Lieberman? To flip the Senate at least back to 50-50.

I find it unlikely the new secretary of defense could bungle Afghanistan and Iraq any worse than Rumsfeld. The question is, can he makes things any better?

at my house, waiting for the appointment of Liebermann as Secretary of Defense. I'm sure it won't take long for that to happen. Then CT's governor can appoint a senator who is a Republican in name as well as deed.

Wa-wa-wee-wa!

LOL. Better dust his back for hand prints.

Ding dong the Rummy's dead, which old Rummy? That old Rummy! Ding dong the wicked Rummy's dead.

This Army veteran is very happy that Smartass Rumsfeld is gone. Maybe he wants to get out out of the country before the subpeonas start, so he won't have to answer why the reservists had no body armor or vehicle armor, why there was no logistical plan for after the Iraq invasion, why there was no plan for securing Iraq, why our troops weren't even given so much as damned Arabic phrase book.

And speaking of subpeonas, BRING......IT.....ON!

Too bad "Uncle Rummy" didn't resign days ago, when it might have done his party some good.

A few folks have said it here, but let me just echo the sentiment:

Bush and the republicans have been handed a resounding defeat. Senate is 51-49. Rummy Resigns and in the spirit of bi-partisanship (which the white house will make a big deal of) they will nominate Lieberman to be the next secreatry of defense, leaving Republican Jodi Rell to appoint a Republican Senator for CT, and tipping the Senate to 50-50 with VP Cheney holding the deciding vote.

It's so fucking scripted it hurts, and all the Democrats who voted for Lieberman can thank him for giving them what they TRULY voted for: A Republican Seantor from Connecticut.

offered the old bast*rd a big directorship or something, no doubt. Good riddance, Rummy.

By the way, the lesson you, Cheney and Co. obviously didn't learn from Vietnam was "It's the natives, stupid." Go make more millions--and can you take Cheney with you?

Am I disappointed? Of course.

Was I a lightning rod in the election? Surely.

Do I think I am to blame for the carnage in Iraq? Not at all.

Do I care what any of you think about me? I do not.

Am I drunk? Not yet.

This most-obvious of the needed policy corrections comes a couple years late.

Good riddance, Rumsfeld. Like with McNamara in Vietnam, history is not going to be kind. Nor should it.

So Cheney must have figured it more important to have the CIA guy in there to try to cover their crimes. They must really be worried.

This is great news for our military and foreign policy. The ironic thing, of course, is that had Bush gotten rid of Rusmfeld sooner, the midterms might have gone better for the Republicans.

..and I thought yesterday was awesome. The only thing that could make this day better is if Cheney had a coronary!

sorry - that was kinda mean.

I guess you can fail miserably at your job and piss the entire US military off for years. But boy, you screw up one election for the Republicans and THEN you're a failure and have to go. Course, that's just my giddy head talking.

I think this is actually a classic Rovian trick to take back control of the news cycle quick and stop as many difficult questions being asked by the new Congress as possible. Ditch the lighting rod so you can get as far from him as possible when the storm starts.

What did MSNBC just bleep out in Bush's press conference?

Did anyone notice in today's press conferance, bush stated that he didnt want to inject Rumsfelf and the war in Iraq into the election so he told reporters that rumsfeld was not going anywhere so the reporter would move on to another question. So he knew he was thinking about getting rid of him, lied before the election.

Just proves that you can't trust anything he says

Ponder; Joe takes stock, then decides it is best for the country to assume the post of Secretary of Defense. Who gets to appoint the new CT Senator? Why Jodi Rell, that's who. Just label this one "plan b-4".

My only regret is that we don't have a tradition of literal seppuku in this country, as opposed to the metaphorical one here.

Still, great to know that he won't be presiding over any more American deaths. Unless he takes old job back, the one with the hooded robe and the scythe.

at a press conference earlier this morning "His spokesman says during meetings this morning, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave no indication he'd quit his job. But the spokesman acknowledges not knowing whether Rumsfeld discussed his future with his boss, President Bush. "

Sure he was trying to get the press to go away... sure it was in the works all along... what a putz.

Our smirking, giggling murderer, chimp-faced little weasel-ass dumb fuck pres-nit stands up there right now lying his goddamn face off, joking and smirking and giggling like this was all a big game of dodge-ball and his team finally got hit.

I don't think he really understands even now the hell he has caused on this earth. He will never take any responsibility for the American lives lost on 9/11, in Iraq, during Katrina when he played guitar and sucked birthday cake off his fingers.

He is nothing but a fucking sociopath!

So Von Rumsfeld gets thrown over the side less than 10 days since Bush shouted that Rummy would be with him to the end.

Well, that must mean that this is the end!

Impeach this son of a bitch now!

Comedy Central broke the story last night! Of course, it was unconfirmed, but that hasn't been stopping anybody else! they had a live runing election blog last night, they mentioned it at 12:15 AM!

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2006/11/1215a_et_only_l.html