Look, the smartest thing the Democrats could do here is employ reverse psychology. Instead of doing what Bush and Rove expect them to do, which is to continually whine and scream for Rummy’s head, Democrats should instead be saying that Rumsfeld should stay as the perfect emblem of the failures of this administration and this president.
Brilliant! And do the same w/ DeLay if they decide to bring him as the head of OMB. They are caricatures of themselves!
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Steve,
I endorse your idea.
Jonathan
Posted by at April 19, 2006 04:24 PMSteve, I'm also on board. Every day Rumsfeld is out there, it reminds everyone of what a mess these guys caused, and are still in.
If Bush gets rid of him, it will be admitting flawed policies, so at this point, he can't win. The bastards have outfinessed themselves.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 19, 2006 04:34 PMSteve, I'm with you.
To Bush and his base, TIKI, it would be admitting defeat, but to the rest of the world, his refusal to fire Rummy looks like, and is, madness. Besides, Iran is Cheney and Rummy's baby, they're just goading Little Caesar into doing what they want him to do, and what Iran's preznit seems to want also. At some point, however, someone's gonna have to step between these playground bullies before they start a global brawl.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 19, 2006 05:23 PMWait, brain fart- the new OMB Director is Rob Portman, but DeLay is still a highly recognizable face associated with nothing but greed and corruption, so he's still high on my list for companion ReThug Poster Boy.
Posted by oppressmenot at April 19, 2006 05:57 PMBudh can;t fire Rumsfeld because (1) no one wants the job and (2) they couldn't withstand the confirmation hearings. Plus, I agree that for Bush it would be firing himself. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will all go out in a pine box or in chains, or stay until January 2009.
That said, the Dems should just keep calling for hearings and an accounting of where all the money has gone.
Posted by Mimikatz at April 19, 2006 06:09 PM"Democrats should instead be saying that Rumsfeld should stay as the perfect emblem of the failures of this administration and this president."
Yeah, and I'd recommend a wife beater stays in the home to serve as an example of what a lousy, violent husband acts like.
Steve,
There is a better reason to keep Rumsfeld.
His failures are a result of attempting to comply with failed policy set by moron. This policy involved playing corporations and allowing them to suckle at the "war" teat. Rumsfeld cannot do both fight a war and provide sheckles to favored corps. A genius would have failed.
Logoize Rumsfeld with the Cheney/Bush meme and keep him in. Get people to think Cheney/Bush everytime Rumsfeld's name comes up.
Then, demand accountability.
Posted by Sky-Ho at April 19, 2006 07:24 PMWhere are the patriots? Where are the people that hold the U.S. above their party? The scum republicans and slime corporate media has destroyed the true meaning of partriotism. Patriotism is not waving flags yelling support our troops while they are unprepared, unsupported, misinformed and hung out to dry. Patriotism is not blindly supporting a band of idiot criminal republicans while they loot our treasury. Hell no we should not agree with letting Rumsfeld and the other thieves continue wrecking our treasury.
Posted by smooth at April 20, 2006 10:18 AMThe reason Rummy should resign is not his past failures and crimes, it is his FUTURE failures and crimes! Invade or bomb Iran--what a mad idea.
Posted by Jon Stopa at April 21, 2006 10:09 AMhttp://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2006/04/a_democratic_vo.html
You are right Steve Duncan, it is too dangerous for all of us to let Rumsfeld remain. The Dems need to do much, much better. Feingold's Censure motion is the least the cowardly dems should do. There is a petition to support Censure on Sen. Harkins site with an excellent article that begins: We have a President that likes to break things."
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2006/04/a_democratic_vo.html
A Democratic voice on permanent bases in Iraq, national security, corruption, courageous generals, and a gutless Congress Excerpts from an interview with Gary Hart on the Al Franken Show about Iraq and permanent bases, a useless Congress and a corrupt presidency.
"...We may well lose the US army in Iraq The same withdrawal plan could prevail. I think there is a civil war there. In fact I wrote a piece about a month ago that the New York Times and Washington Post turned down but the Boston Globe ran which said that if we wake up some morning and the whole country has erupted into a violent, countrywide civil war, we could lose our army there. No one's talked about this. The Army is
dispersed through by and large central, but to a degree southern, Iraq. If the nation became aflame, we've got platoon-size and smaller units scattered all over the country and the cities to try to pacify them, and they could be cut off. They couldn't get back to the Green Zone to be extracted. And we could lose the American Army there as Napoleon lost his army in Moscow...."
Short FICTIONAL letter warning about the shape of things to come by Brigader General Dunlap:
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm
The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.