Rumsfeld is toast

The other day we watched Rumsfeld struggle through a press conference, pointing to some weak press release (no doubt on a Friday evening amidst 100 other unrelated press releases, but still how come no one picked it up in January? or is he lying? who’s checking this?), floundering without successfully wielding hardly any of his trademark fighting techniques.
(Speaking of fighting techniques, anything new from the My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable guy lately?)
Anyway, I asked B, do you think Rummy will resign? She scoffed at the idea, but this morning’s times has George Bush leaking his displeasure on Don and tonight’s McLehrer has him adamantly denying that Rumsfeld should be mad eto resign, while others from McCain on left say it’s too soon to say.
They don’t want to soldier on without their best spokesmodel, but they have to stanch the bleeding. In an administration in which the buck never seems to stop, this is going to a tough one to pin on Powell. Delay heightens the risk of a second fishing expedition to supplement the Plame one (what’s going on with that), the 9/11 commission, hell even Anthrax guy.
One thing I’m not looking forward to is a panicky cornered-ferret Bush administration in its death throes.

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2 responses to “Rumsfeld is toast”

  1. cecil vortex Avatar
    cecil vortex

    boy, amen on that last line.
    I was watching a few minutes of the Hannity tonight, as I do when I feel the need to retroactively punish myself for my 13-year-old summer-long fling with candy and lp shop-lifting, I was really struck by his extra ranty tone. At one point, he starts hollering at dem. Sen. Corazine (sp?) “why doesn’t anyone thank or praise us for all the great work we’ve done in Iraq? The Lefties? The Arab world? The Iraqis? We’re building bridges. 13-years! Why? Why doesn’t anyone thank us?”
    And I thought: 1. desperate. 2. delusional. and 3 dangerous.

  2. David Kolodney Avatar
    David Kolodney

    Will He Stay or Will He Go?
    –One of the most preposterous things about this episode is that the front page of every newspaper in the country led with: “Bush Privately Chides…”
    –One DC scenario would be that Rumsfeld is not fired. He resigns, “For the good of….” And the ever-loyal Bush is simply resigned to the resignation.