11/8/06
Breaking News: Rumsfeld Resigns!
A staggering news day, ladies and gentlemen; with Democrats already taking control of the House of Representatives and quite possibly the Senate as well, it would have been a fabulous day for liberals and yours truly even without the news that Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld is resigning. Rumsfeld, apparently seeing what all of us knew
six years ago, that his close-your-eyes, plug-your-ears and substitute-your-own-imaginary-reality approach to the war in Iraq has failed utterly and miserably, will be replaced by former CIA director and current president of Texas A&M Robert Gates. (pictured at right)Rumsfeld has been the whipping boy for Democrats, Republicans and senior military officials alike when it came to the debacle that is the Iraqi war. Calls for his resignation have been circulating for years now and I guess we all just wished hard enough that the fairies made it true! That, or the fact that yesterday Americans overwhelmingly cast a vote for administration and policy change by sweeping the Democrats into power.
Rush Limbaugh has been heard to say that, had Rumsfeld resigned a week ago, it could have saved some Republicans their seats in Congress. There is some truth to that, probably, but, as was pointed out by my devilishly gleeful fiancé, had the Dems not swept the election, Rumsfeld never would have resigned. So you have a little catch-22 there. But the important news is that the man that has been saying “everything’s cool, dude,” for years now concerning the increasing failure and bloodbath of Iraq, is gone.
I think I have an erection.
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