Posted on 11/08/2006 9:51:57 AM PST by mhking
This is just crossing my desk now; nothing follows yet. According to some sources this is the subject of the noon presser.
He used to. I used to believe him.
I agree with you - I've always felt that one of W.'s greatest faults was not dealing with the Clinton shadow goverment.
Dunno if you were being sarcastic or not, but your thought was also my first gut-reaction.
Would more Republicans have been able to win/retain their seats if Bush had let Rummie go awhile before the election? It seems like the talking heads are saying that Iraq was the reason a lot of prominent Republicans lost.
Not that I believe everything the talking heads say, but we really lost more seats than all but the democrats thought we would.
Ah, I just thought of something that would shock me even more... the President switching parties.
Wouldn't that be a gut-buster?
* relax * I'm just musing on what would shock me more at this point.
I think I'm too wired just like the Prez today.
Leni
I am over it already.
Having read a lot of posts on this thread that are making me VERY angry...I AM over it.
WOW...Pres. Bush comes out the day after he probably lost both houses of Congress...after a killer schedule of campaigning...and years of being called every name in the book.
And what do I read on FR??? Criticisms of how he is SOUNDING TODAY!!!
Jeez louise...what do freepers expect????
I am oughta here.
God I'm just sick to my stomach today. I'm glad my college class was shortened cuz I don't know if I could have handled the liberal glee being put on display by the younger, less informed, students.
Oh well, the truth is that it wouldn't have mattered in the end. The MSM would have cut 'n snipped any comments made by the President anyhow, and twisted them to suit their agenda.
This "Secretary of Defense" BS has gone on long enough. It's time for the US to stop being so darn sensitive.
We need a new Secretary of War!
(and an under-Secretary of kicking the crap out of our supposed allies)
Your post # 427 is spot on !
Agree (for what it is worth).
BTW if Bob Gates is in for some hard hearings before he is approved by the Senate he has been there, done that, before. His confirmation hearings to the become the head of the CIA were incredibly partisan, with a lot of "left wing activists" (or possibly worse) - so called former CIA operatives - doing their best to have him brought down.
I have previously posted on those hearings (on a thread about the KGB involvement in the assassination attempt on the Pope. )
When you look around the Congress at the new Democratic majority in the House & Senate, you can, at least in part, thank Donald Rumsfeld.
Wonder how the election would have gone if he would have actually listened to any of the numerous voices who said we needed far more than 150,000 men to "win" in Iraq? If we sent enough troops to actually win? We could be looking at a permanant, enduring Republican majority. Instead, we will deal with Speaker Pelosi & Majority Leader Reid.
Rumsfeld resigning, to be replaced by former CIA Director Gates
Nov 8, 2006 12:15 PM CST
WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is resigning after six stormy years at the Pentagon. President Bush says former C-I-A head Robert Gates -- who's president of Texas A&M -- will replace Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld is the architect of an unpopular war in Iraq. The development occurred one day after midterm elections that cost Republicans control of the U-S House -- and possibly the Senate.
The nomination of Gates face Senate confirmation. Gates since the summer of 2002 has been president of A&M. He's a close friend of the Bush family. Gates served as C-I-A director for the first President Bush from 1991 until 1993.
Gates joined the C-I-A in 1966 and served in the intelligence community for more than a quarter century. Since leaving the C-I-A, Gates worked as a consultant, a lecturer and as interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at A&M from 1999-2001.
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5651007
I agree, Txsleuth. I'm outta here.
"As I asked earlier, what if Cheney no resigned during a congressional recess? Could Bush recess appoint someone?
Or Cheney could resign, effective with the swaring in of his successor, then if congress doesn't act, recess appoint his choice when congress goes on their break. They do take so many...
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VP nominee. Confirmed by a majority of BOTH houses.
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Texas A&M University President Robert Gates waits at the start of a meeting with minority lawmakers in Austin, Texas in this Dec. 8, 2003 file photo. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said Wednesday. Officials said Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)
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