Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "I think Rumsfeld has done an excellent job"

[Human Torch]

Democrats see support for anti-Rumsfeld vote

By Susan Cornwell
Reuters
Monday, September 4, 2006; 1:13 AM

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A resolution demanding the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after he compared Iraq war critics to Nazi appeasers has strong support among U.S. Senate Democrats, a senior Democrat said on Sunday.

A resolution against Rumsfeld, long a lightning rod for criticism of the Iraq war, would struggle to be passed by the Republican-controlled Senate and would anyway not be binding on the administration of President George W. Bush.



"I think Secretary Rumsfeld has done an excellent job. He'll be remembered as one of the great secretaries of defense," Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, told CBS's "Face the Nation." McConnell said Democrats wanted to "wave the white flag" on the Iraq war. He said the Republican-run Senate would dwell on national security issues all through September.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said on "Face the Nation" that "of course" Rumsfeld should resign, adding that it was not smart to attack the majority of Americans who thought the war in Iraq was a mistake. "Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President (Dick) Cheney have gone on television saying people who disagree with the president are essentially like Nazi appeasers. When you start attacking voters out of your frustration, that is not a good thing for winning elections," Dean said

[acmavm]

1. I always wonder if people are truly as stupid as this guy or if they lie

to defend their party so they don't look like the lying, incompetent, gutless thugs that they really are.

Either way, they don't come off sounding like rocket scientists.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. remember he's married to Sec. Chao who thinks the economy is

in great shape.
These two are kool-aid sniffers to the max.
Both of them millionaires, and both using their political pull and offices for personal gain.

[Bozita]

4. Yup, both are in DC today only because it's Labor Day

Rummy's a great SoD. Elaine is a terrific Secretary of Labor.

Such bullshit!

[Ilsa]

5. Yep. The economy and tax policy are great for them for the reasons

you site. And Rumsferatu is doing a great job if his objectives are to enrich the corporate military industrial complex and help make the rest of the world mad at us.

[Human Torch]

9. Yeah, my choice of a photo with both of them was deliberate...

...and yes, Chao's pimping of the roaring economy and all the things the Bush administration is doing to make sure that "every American who wants a job has one" is as mind-numbingly offensive as her husband's love of Rumsferatu.

:patriot:

[Virginia Dare]

11. Yep, extreme corporate whores both...n/t

[joemurphy]

3. Mitch also enjoys the pain and itch of hemorrhoidal tissue. n/t

[Ilsa]

6. LOLOLOL. From your lips to God(dess)'s ears to MMcC's ass. nt.

[leesa]

7. What a couple of primo whores!

[GOPBasher]

8. Yes, he's done wonderfully, and it really shows in Iraq!!!

:sarcasm:

[NOLADEM]

10. When a Repube says this....

You have to either question what their goal is if this is success, or their mental health.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Mitch McClownshoe and Elaine Ciao -

Two GOP morans, out of touch with all reality, paid to do bidding for Big Business while not caring two shits about the people they're supposed to be representing. Both need kicked in the ass and out of DC.

[MasonJar]

13. You can take it from a Kentuckian; Mitch McConnell is a venal

hack. He is one of the top Bush cronies.

[gulliver]

14. McConnell is a damned good politician.

Focus everything on Rumsfeld. Never mind that Rumsfeld couldn't have done anything without the Republican Congress and Bush exercising unchecked power to invade Iraq.