Prediction: Rumsfeld will resign this weekend.

[johncoby2]

Rumsfeld will resign while everyone is looking for easter egs hidden by a large white fuzzy bunny.

By Monday everyone would have forgotten.

[babylonsister]

1. Hmmm. Who will replace him? nt

[NV Whino]

4. Whoever is for bombin Iran.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. Rumors were Lieberman.

YOu think that might still be the case?

[NV Whino]

12. As much as I dislike that little

pissant, I think he's too smart to take the bait.

[killerbush]

21. Unfortunately, rummy is probably staying put

And even if he were somehow to go this weekend, Lieberman will not replace him.

[joemurphy]

8. Someone with equal gravitas -- Peewee Herman

[saltpoint]

11. I think PeeWee dresses better than Rumsfeld, too. So that's another

point in his favor.

Also, chicken-choking isn't nearly as grievous a transgression as greenlighting torture centers around the globe.

I'd feel a hell of a lot safer if PeeWee Herman were in there than the current occupant.

[CPMaz]

16. I KNOW!! Who else could it be?

Who else so eloquently favors the precision use of military assets?

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

Who else is so in sych, in terms of restrictions on presidentially authorized activities, with our esteemed president?

"Supreme Court decisions are binding in the court systems ... but in terms of general law, which binds every citizen, why should you and I be bound because of the ineptitude, if you will, or the skill of one or more defense lawyers, or the plaintiffs in any particular lawsuit?"

Who else has the same regard for boring old international diplomacy as does our W?

"I read your book. When you get through, you say, "If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer." I mean, you get through this, and you say, "We've got to blow that thing up." I mean, is it as bad as you say?"

Who else can communicate with our President in a meaningful way?

"People have immortal spirits with incredible power over elemental things. The way to deal with inanimate matter is to talk to it."

There's only one *real* candidate for the job -

You know him, you love him, you want him committed to the nearest psychiatric facility...

Let's hear it for God's chosen voice to his Earthly flock - the one and only (THANK G...well, you know who :) )

PAT ROBERTSON!!! Whooo hooo!!


/end sarcasm :)

[magnolia]

30. If they were smart....

...it would be William Cohen. But...fortunately they aren't smart. They aren't going to put someone in who can do the job...they'll get someone from the neo-con crowd.

[NV Whino]

2. I'm not sure about this weekend, but

soon.

[saltpoint]

3. I like your thinking, johncoby2. And not many of us here would miss

the old hack, either.

[babylonsister]

6. How 'bout no one?

:hi:
I still wonder about a replacement; who would want that job? (OK, maybe John Bolton)

[saltpoint]

10. LOL! "No one" sounds accurate to me. Hi, babylonsister. As usual,

you bring an essential zip to these boards and I am grateful for it.

Dear god let it not be John Bolten as Rumsfeld's replacement. I will apply for asylum to Bolivia if it's Bolten!

There has been talk off and on that Lieberman might take the job if it was offered. Bill Clinton had a Republican, Bill Cohen, as Sec. of Defense, and Bush might try the same strategy.

This war has tangled everything up, hasn't it?

[babylonsister]

15. So tell me about Bolivia!

Liebermann, as much as I dislike him, would be preferable to rummy.

The war has tangled everything up; I just hope the guilty will be exposed.

[saltpoint]

19. I'm hopeful that the generals' public denouncements of Rumsfeld

will have the desired effect.

Veteran Republicans, never our favorites, are at least smart enough to know that Rummy's cooked meat.

He's going to have to go sooner or later.

I'm for sooner!

[bdamomma]

23. I wouldn't miss him

he is a antique right now, hey rummy take cheney with you.

[saltpoint]

32. Hi, alyce douglas. Oh yes indeed -- both Don and Dick out of there.

What a lovely thought to begin the weekend!

[ET Awful]

5. And Bush will give a speech saying "You're doing a hell of a job Rummy"

before he realizes what he's actually saying :P

[nevergiveup]

9. No way.....this would be an admission of failure

[oblivious]

13. People like that will do anything to stay in power.

Criticism of him is like water off a duck's back. The only thing that would bother him I bet is the idea of being a nobody again.

[Sadie5]

14. Rummy just might resign

You know how the GOP all like to spend time with their families. It's Easter week-end.

[Stephanie]

18. well it wouldn't be up to him

if you are not of use to the Bushes they will throw you overboard in a heartbeat. Loyalty is a one-way street in the Bush Crime Family. They demand loyalty, but they don't feel they owe it to anybody. As Scooter Libby learned to his dismay. Same for Judith Miller. I remember when she went to jail I wrote a thread called, "if the leaker is a gentleman he'll step forward and save the lady from jail." long title! but i knew then that it was cheney, because he's such a lowlife coward scum. He let a woman go to jail because he's too much of a coward to come forward. Did the same to Libby.

[oblivious]

27. I didn't realize this was on the front page of all the major newspapers.

You're right. They wouldn't be doing that unless they'd been told too. He's gone.

[Stephanie]

17. health reasons? or, spend more time with his family?

Or, to put an end to all of the irresponsible speculation which is distracting us from our number one priority which is our need to bomb Iran.

[saltpoint]

20. I heard he will step down and do a star turn as a judge on American Idol.

[quaoar]

22. Rumsfeld won't leave unless he's dragged out

And even then someone will have to drive a wooden stake through his heart.

[bdamomma]

24. yeah, just like cheney, they have been both together for

long time. time to step down, rummy has made enough money and spilled enough blood. and probably has made a number of enemies, 4 generals and perhaps more.

[No Exit]

25. Everyone WON'T be looking for bunny eggs b/c LIBERALS ARE AT WAR

AGAINST THE EASTER BUNNY!!!

Know your O'Reilly Factor!;)

As for a possible Rumsfeld resignation, if it happens, I want MAXIMUM scandal traction. I want the scandal/shame/guilt/disgust to go on and on and on. I want Junior's simian little nose to be rubbed in it in perpetuity. (Happy f*cking Easter, y'all.)

[Kablooie]

26. I disagree. Rum will STAY ON!

Rumsfeld and Cheney are critical for the Neocons to carry out their plans. If either of them left, the whole scheme to take over the Middle East would collapse. Bush needs Rummy there to manage the martial law situation when he calls it in a few months. They've come this far in taking over the country they would never give up now.

No. Neither Rum or Chen will be going anywhere as long as Bush remains president. And he very will might remain president after 2008.

You'll see.

[MiniMe]

28. Doesn't Condi want the job?

I remember something about how she wanted secretary of defense instead of secretary of state. After all, she did a heck of a job as National Security Advisor.

[Chomp]

29. WaPo op-ed piece by David Ignatius today

Replace Rumsfeld

(...First 4 paras....)

With luck, Iraq will make a fresh start soon with the formation of a new government. The Bush administration should do the same thing by replacing Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary.

Rumsfeld has lost the support of the uniformed military officers who work for him. Make no mistake: The retired generals who are speaking out against Rumsfeld in interviews and op-ed pieces express the views of hundreds of other officers on active duty. When I recently asked an Army officer with extensive Iraq combat experience how many of his colleagues wanted Rumsfeld out, he guessed 75 percent. Based on my own conversations with senior officers over the past three years, I suspect that figure may be low.

But that isn't the reason he should be replaced. Military officers often dislike the civilians they work for, but in our system strong civilian control is essential. On some of the issues over which he has tangled with the military brass, Rumsfeld has been right. The Pentagon is a hidebound place, and it has needed the "transformation" ethic Rumsfeld brought to his job. I'm dubious about the Pentagon conventional wisdom that we needed 500,000 American troops in Iraq. More troops were necessary, but they should have been Iraqi troops from an army that wasn't disbanded.

Rumsfeld should resign because the Bush administration is losing the war on the home front. As bad as things are in Baghdad, America won't be defeated there militarily. But it may be forced into a hasty and chaotic retreat by mounting domestic opposition to its policy. Much of the American public has simply stopped believing the administration's arguments about Iraq, and Rumsfeld is a symbol of that credibility gap. He is a spent force, reduced to squabbling with the secretary of state about whether "tactical errors" were made in the war's conduct.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301238.html

[Dulcinea]

31. Rummy's not going anywhere.

He's in much too deep. It's like the mob: you can't resign.

Snow might resign, but I bet they can't find anyone who wants to take his place. Same for Scotty McClellan.