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gas huffer wrote:

bratboy wrote:

The American people forced him out, certainly.

Bingo, a nod to the masses.

Up next, investigations that go nowhere and lots of finger pointing.

Rumsfeld made his own bed.  There were more than enough mistakes to go around.

gas huffer wrote:

bratboy wrote:

The American people forced him out, certainly.

Bingo, a nod to the masses.

Up next, investigations that go nowhere and lots of finger pointing.

Huh, someone might get the impression that you consider such to be bad things.

Farmerkev wrote:

I think I'd wait and see if anything actually changes besides the name on the door before I popped the champaign corks.

What about the Spiced Cider cork?

"The terrists can't defeat America -- only Americans can do that!"

eh.

one down, 3 to go.

Here's an interesting (and hardly shocking) article: GOP furious about timing of Rumsfeld resignation.

"The White House said keeping the majority was a priority, but they failed to do the one thing that could have made a difference," one House GOP leadership aide said Thursday. "For them to toss Rumsfeld one day after the election was a slap in the face to everyone who worked hard to protect the majority."

Exit polling suggested that an overwhelming majority of voters disapproved of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq, and members and aides were frustrated with the timing of the announcement because an earlier resignation could have given them a boost on the campaign trail, they believe.

"They did this to protect themselves, but they couldn't protect us?" another Republican aide said yesterday.

No doubt. I'd sure as hell be pissed if I were one of those guys.

They thought Diebold had it covered.

Karl Rove wrote:

I see several things. First of all, unlike the general public, I'm allowed to the see the polls on the individual races. And after all, this does come down to individual contests between individual candidates.

And second of all, I see the individual spending reports and contribution reports. For example, at the end of August in 30 of the most competitive races in the country -- the House races -- the Republicans had $33 million cash on hand and the Democrats had just over 14 million…

…Look, I'm looking at all these Robert and adding them up. And I add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to "the" math.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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jondaris wrote:

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(via boingboing)

gas huffer wrote:

bratboy wrote:

The American people forced him out, certainly.

Bingo, a nod to the masses.

Up next, investigations that go nowhere and lots of finger pointing.

as i recall, the probable next speaker of the house stated that the dems wouldn't push for impeachment. whether that pans out or not doesn't prevent investigations designed to provide some measure of accounting for the smurfed up state of things.

finger pointing is good, as long as the direction of the pointing is accurate.

i think that if the repubs want to gain back any credibility as a party that values high ethical behavior, it behooves them to bring the impeachment/treason proceedings, not leave it up to the dems, then use that to condemn their actions.

but maybe i'm just a crazy idealist.

I think what old Nancy means with the "no-impeachment" declaration is that she would rather keep that particular pair of pliers gently pressed around George's balls.

She'll get more out of him that way and it will force him to deal with Iraq himself (I think that bit is already starting to work). Also, who the hell wants a President Cheney?

CeeJer53 wrote:

Also, back on Bolton, what is stopping the lame ducks from approving his appointment before they gotta go?  What's to stop that? 

Lincoln Chaffe has said he won't let it out of the Foreign Relations committee.