Rumsfeld is out, and the dream of a permanent Republican majority is over. Call it political pragmatism, if you wish, but President Bush was simply breathtaking in his ability to discard a position he took as recently as last week - that he would retain Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was doing a "fantastic job." Asked about that statement at a news conference this past Wednesday, Mr. Bush explained that he didn't want to "inject a major decision about this war in the final days of the campaign." After sig- nificant Democratic gains in Congress, the president acted like a...