Letters to the Editor
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Bush and Rumsfeld and Gingrich
Bush handled the Rumsfeld situation just like he's handled everything else over the last five + years: "I'm the decider, and I'll tell everyone else as little as possible. I don't have to show my math." How anyone can separate this one episode from the rest of his actions is quite puzzling to me. Every decision and action he makes has the fingerprints of political expediency. Bush is so out of touch that he couldn't recognize that replacing Rumsfeld before the election would have been viewed as a good thing to most voters. Actually, we'll never really know for sure how big a difference it would have made. But given hindsight, I'm sure Bush would have pulled the trigger a few months ago if he hadn't been so afraid of the political consequences. This episode is the most obvious example that Bush's highest priority is the political ramifications of his actions. And all these Republicans like Gingrich who are complaining about the timing now are really pathetic. If Bush should have done it sooner, why weren't y'all publicly telling him to do so back then? We get to do that in a democracy, you know....