Gin Rummy
I guess he didn't want to have to deal with the San Francisco Values.
posted by Serrephim at 10:36 AM
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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15 Comments:
I can't see from here: are people swing dancing in the middle of Market Street?
I can't see through all the ticker tape and confetti.
yes, robert gates is going to do very well. definitely a big catalyst for change in the right direction. nicely done by bush.
good timing and all that. had to be done or the next 12 months are all about congressional oversight hearings nailing rummy to the wall. nice, and necesary, move by bush to avoid that.
I disagree that it's a nice and necessary move. As Decider in Chief, it would be nice if occasionally he showed some leadership, which includes taking responsbility for everything in your administration.
It was long overdue, and Bush's stubbornness in sticking by Rumsfeld probably cost the GOP multiple seats in both the House and the Senate.
Schwarzenegger was down in the Gov's race a year or so ago, but he said, "I hear you, I need to change," and he did enough to convince people he was serious about it.
All Bush had to do was throw Rummy overboard six months ago, and he'd be looking at 2 more years of one-party rule.
Donald Rumsfeld should be forced to spend the rest of his life explaining to the families of our dead soldiers why he shouldn't be in jail for sheer incompetence.
now now el gallo, relax. rummy tried his best.
by nice and necesary i'm not saying it wasn't overdue or that both bush and rummy aren't incompetent idiots. it's just that given the election results, it was nice to see they ditched rummy as quickly as possible and moved on. it's nice timing in that bush could have been ever more stubborn and opened the new congress with bitter divisiveness and squabbling. not that we won't probably wind up there anyway, but better not to go through three weeks of calling for his head on the dem side and hedging around the issue on the white house side.
make no mistake about it, i am aghast at the incompetence, stupidity and arrogance of this adminstration. i just don't necessarily feel that we should focus our legislative time an effort on extracting a pound of flesh as opposed to making critically needed reforms to educational, tax, environmental and health care legislation.
anon,
And like all special olympians he deserves a medal just for trying...
hey el gallo, if you're so full of political expertise, why don't you run for office? do you honestly think you or most others have a higher acumen for defense secretary than rumsfeld? please, spare me.
anon,
If Brent Scowcroft told *me* that invading Iraq was a terrible idea, I'd listen to him. It's not that I have more political* experience than Rumsfeld, I'm just not afflicted with poisonous levels of hubris.
*and I think you meant to say foreign policy here, which is a very different thing.
ok, i can handle that answer. thanks.
If El Gallo runs for office, I'll vote for him.
faville,
Wouldn't you kind of *have* to?
:P
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