Rumsfeld Resings!!!

[TAP]

This is an indication that Cheney's days are over and Daddy Bush is now calling the shots. Robert Gates is a Daddy Bush stooge who steps in to clean up Jr's messes.

Newsweek agrees with Bud Fox

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15627055/site/newsweek/

[Bill 213]

Hallelujah.......all I can say is finally.? Robert Gates isn't that great of choice either.? He's just another Bush family crony who's had a history of shadiness with the Iran-Contra scandal.

Yeah, that worries me too.? but at least its a change.? Does the senate have to approve this change?? Hmmm, the VA race just got even MORE interesting

The outgoing Senate will have a confirmation hearing to accept it.  I agree with Webb, who wants the incoming Senate to do the hearing.  I'm pretty sure Gates will be confirmed and get the position.  Then he'll start his web of deceit just like he spun in the 80's under the Reagan Administration. 

[Axl4Prez2004]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.  Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?  He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!   

[Bill 213]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.? Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?? He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!? ?

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt!!!    Whatever they've been smoking the past 6 years....I don't know if I want any part of that. 

[SLCPUNK]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.  Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?  He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!   

I laughed at that with Mrs. Punk earlier today. The notion is preposterous: Ignore the mess now, but one day we will look back and see the true genius of our current leaders..............

[sandman]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.? Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?? He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!? ?

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?" 

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.  Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?  He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!   

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?" 

I think the republicans really fucked up on that one. Diddnt Rumsfeld try to resign 2 seperate occasions in the past & Bush would not let him?

I think the Democrats realize now that they have power they have to accomplish something with it since 2008 is not far away. This is a good thing for the USA. People will have to work together, that hasnt happened in awhile.

[pilferk]

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?"?

Reagans approval ratings never came close to GW's.? He had a set of very vocal critics, mostly in regards to his economic policy (which GW's daddy can probably thank for his short stay in office) but his administration had nowhere near the number of blunders we're seeing here.  And Reagan's foriegn policy was lauded even by his most vocal critics.

As for Bush announcing earlier...it's a double edged sword.? On one hand, you get the "Look, I'm trying to do something here so vote for our party..." positive spin.? On the other you get both the "It's a calculated move to influence the elections" and the "He's admitting he's made a mistake" bad press.? It would have been risky.? Waiting makes him look a lttle bit conciliatory, regardless if the process started days before the election (to me, that just shows they saw the writing was on the wall) or not.? Maybe, just maybe, it buys him a bit of political capital with the incoming legislature, too.

Do you all realize that EVERY state that Bush campaigned in....the repubs lost the race.? Owch...

[GeraldFord]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.? Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?? He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!? ?

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?"?

While conservatives may think highly of Reagan, there is not a general consensus that he was a great leader, by any means.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Good ol' Rummy, stickin' by his boss right to the bitter end.  Did everybody here catch the press conference with Bush, Gates, and Rummy?  He still thinks 25 years down the road, historians will look glowingly back at this administration's policies......I want what he's smokin'!   

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?" 

While conservatives may think highly of Reagan, there is not a general consensus that he was a great leader, by any means.

Reagan helped end the cold war, so he'll always have that associated with him in the history books. He was the last president we had that went out of office with a very high approval rating.

[GeraldFord]

Clinton left office in the 60s I believe, not sure about Reagan.

And I refute any claim that says Reagan ended the Cold War. The USSR fell because for years they tried to have guns and butter, they were overextended, and fell apart. I know that "tear down this wall" is a good soundbyte and all, but the USSR would have fallen no matter who was in the oval office, Nixon said as much in the early 90s.

[sandman]

it happened with reagan. when many people felt the way you feel about his administration.

but what do you expect him to say? this is all politics. everything they say is calculated.

i'd be pissed if i was a republican running for office on tuesday, ended up losing a close race, and a day later rummey resigns. it's like "thanks, but couldn't you have done that a few months earlier?"?

Reagans approval ratings never came close to GW's.? He had a set of very vocal critics, mostly in regards to his economic policy (which GW's daddy can probably thank for his short stay in office) but his administration had nowhere near the number of blunders we're seeing here.? And Reagan's foriegn policy was lauded even by his most vocal critics.

As for Bush announcing earlier...it's a double edged sword.? On one hand, you get the "Look, I'm trying to do something here so vote for our party..." positive spin.? On the other you get both the "It's a calculated move to influence the elections" and the "He's admitting he's made a mistake" bad press.? It would have been risky.? Waiting makes him look a lttle bit conciliatory, regardless if the process started days before the election (to me, that just shows they saw the writing was on the wall) or not.? Maybe, just maybe, it buys him a bit of political capital with the incoming legislature, too.

Do you all realize that EVERY state that Bush campaigned in....the repubs lost the race.? Owch...

i'm assuming you're joking about liberals liking reagan's foreign policy. i was only in grade school but i remember thinking we were gonna get attacked by a nuclear bomb becuase of liberal scare tactics.

and there was a study by historians that ranked reagan as the 10th best prez of all time.

[SLCPUNK]

He's back to work now, no worry.............

[pasnow]

HAHA, that pics great

[Will]

I was very glad to see that this morning when I woke up! Very good news to start the day!

[Krispy Kreme]

There is a God, unfortunately, he is 6 years too late.

[Krispy Kreme]

whats hes resinging?

No one gets your joke but me. 
Good one.
The same thing occurred  to me--what  is he resinging?