Cut and Run

Rather than face the endless hearings as a sitting (and incredibly vulnerable) Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumseld has chosen to resign his position. I predicted this in my 11:37 entry of the big liveblogging fest last night, loudly and obnoxiously (Chervokas said it gave him a vicious headache) proclaiming that Rummy would never allow himself to submit to a grilling by a panel run by Democrats. I was absolutely certain that the arrogance of the man - the main theme of Bob Woodwards knife-in-the-back Bush post-hagriography - would cause him to see this election as a referendum on one thing - Don Rumsfeld. So now CNN's doing a standup in front of Rummy's house and a woman is singing the song that winners use to mock the losers. If Rumseld hadn't sent 2,800 of our finest to die I might find it funny. But it's hard to sing this one in dirge-like fashion. na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na...hey hey hey....goodbye.

Comments

[Jennifer]

Ahhh, Rumsfeld is gone! But now I'm listening to Bush who sounds like he's chiding the new power in Washington. "They had better remember that with increased power comes increased responsibility!!!" Well, I don't recall the GOP as being responsible for anything, why the call for responsibility now???

I did notice his "new curtain joke" fell flat as could be. What an ass.

[Ralph]

Wow. This day is just getting better and better. Now we just need Virginia!

[blue girl]

This should make me happy, but it just makes me madder.

What a obnoxious, self centered fool.

2800 dead and 20,000 wounded. One party rule and he's doing a *fantastic job.*

Have to be held accountable? And he's outta there.

Criminal!

[Jennifer]

And Bush is now blaming the American people as getting it wrong yesterday... we misunderstood him and somehow had it slipped into our consciousness that all he was capable of was "STAYING THE COURSE". Didn't we know they had been adapting all this time???
When does the impeachment begin???

Mr. Watson- sorry for unloading over here, but Lance seems to be MIA. Was his Pepsi spiked last night? Was he up till all hours dancing on the tables?

[Wil Robinson]

"Cut & Run..." How true. Rumsfeld can disappear into history and never face the soldiers and civilian lives he ruined by trying to invade Iraq "on the cheap."

[b tween]

Rummy is no dummy.
Now that he's no longer in the employ of the US Government, he's absolutely untouchable - unless of course the amendments to the War Crimes Act are repealed.
This leads me to a legal question that maybe someone else can answer: can existing laws that are amended to *retroactively* indemnify those who have commited acts - which at the time were criminal - survive constitutional challenge?