Posted on 11/08/2006 9:58:53 AM PST by Perdogg
He's on the Baker/Hamilton committee so maybe it'll work.
Something interesting came across Fox wire.
He congratulated Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Did we keep the Senate?
I couldn't believe my eyes that Wikipedia already had that written up and posted. What's up with that?
He was not a wuss, obviously you don't remember the confirmation hearings in 1991.
If Bush had done this before the elections the liberals would have beat him and all republicans over the head with it.
Well, if that's what Wikipedia says, you know it's as good as gold.
As a member of James Baker's "Iraq study group", it's reasonable to assume the Baker view will prevail. Whether that will be a dismembering of Iraq, or a simple withdrawl, I don't know. Personally I would have felt better if Baker had left his law firm, with offices in Bahrain and Riyadh, before undertaking policymaking on behalf of the government, but so be it.
This is done exactly as it needed to be. The investigations would have subpoenaed Rumsfeld and Bush would have had to invoke Exec. Priv. to prevent his testimony. This way, no such ongoing lightning rod will exist. Rumsfeld can testify all day long and the matter will be put to bed in a week or two.
And after that, nothing will change policy-wise, and come 2008 Hillary will still have to deal with the left wing, who generally hates her right now, because nothing will have changed.
This was a good maneuver. And the right time. No point in resigning yesterday because control of Congress might not have been lost and the subpoena power might not have existed.
And an Eagle Scout at that! ACLU - deal with that.
Didn't know that Aspin was still alive.
Man, those guys are quick!
At one point, wasn't the CEO of FedEx thought to be up for SecDef?
Considering that a HUGE part of military is logistics, it might not have been a bad call. Plus I like regular successful businessmen being in government since they're used to having to watch their resources carefully and optimize them for greatest effectiveness.
/sarc
Good choice, Bush. TAMU will miss him.
Isn't Les Aspin dead? Not that that would matter to the Dems.
My apologies, I should have refreshed the posts before I added mine.
"God protect us."
God purify us from our idolatry. Babylonian exile comes in many different guises.
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