How do you respect that? Respect what?
Respect that he would quit and try to give the President a boost in the face of one of the most hostile situations in US politics?
Respect that rather than face the insipid, ludicrous, asinine, tedious, inane, idiotic morons in the SINate every day for the next 2 years, he chose to resign after 6 long years of nothing but attacks on him, his performance and his intellect?
No, I meant how could HE respect them! The Dem Senators and Congressmen who would be questioning him. In the past Rumsfeld has worked with the loyal opposition that he disagreed with for sure.
But I'll bet he respected (somewhat) the Dems of old, and his constitutional duty to answer to them.
Now, I'm sure he knows they are truly enemies of the US, and will not sit before them pretending respect.