John McCain wants to be effin's SecDef. Effin's said as much. McCain's pandered as much. Kristol wants Bush to fire Rumsfeld and replace him with McCain. Me, I want McCain to shut up and go away. I've had it with him.
Last Friday I didn't get to see the Senate and House hearings with Rumsfeld live so I stayed up and watched them into the wee hours of the morning Saturday. I concluded the following: the Senate is what we used to refer to in pathology lab as "one giant space-occupying lesion." Quite frankly, if they all took a wrong turn and fell into the Potomac this evening, I don't think the country would miss a single one of them.
I was totally impressed with the House members who questioned Rumsfeld - even most (but not all) of the dems. They were not into grandstanding, they were into asking logical questions. It was quite refreshing to watch.
Oh, and Rumsfeld made me very proud to be an American and very proud to have him as SecDef. He's a wonderful guy and we're lucky to have him.
Many argue that we can only rectify the wrongs done in the Iraqi prisons if Donald Rumsfeld resigns. I disagree. Unless there is clear evidence connecting him to the wrongdoing, it is neither sensible nor fair to force the resignation of the secretary of defense, who clearly retains the confidence of the commander in chief, in the midst of a war. I have yet to see such evidence. Secretary Rumsfeld's removal would delight foreign and domestic opponents of America's presence in Iraq.
But, as we are showing in our response to Abu Ghraib, we are a nation of laws, and therefore must punish only those who are proven guilty. The Iraqi prison scandal has been a nightmare at an already difficult moment in the war in Iraq. But our cause remains as critical as ever to our security and our values. We must therefore persist in it. With determination and confidence, we should recall President Lincoln's words at another difficult moment in American history in pursuit of another just cause: "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us do our duty as we understand it." complete article
McCain is becoming the crazy aunt in the attic, in my opinion.