Word of Donald Rumsfeld's retirement does damage to our Seldom-Wrong reputation, having earlier today opined that the Democrat majority made his resignation less likely.
But we're glad at any rate. Defense needs fresh leadership with fresh ideas.
Bush shows himself to have more flexibility in this than we expected. The time for Rummy to go had clearly come, but he seemed mired in his personal loyalty.
Of course, the first sign that a person is about to lose a cabinet post is the President's announcement of his confidence in the person, which announcement Bush made last week.
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Somehow, "flexibility" just doesn't seem to be the right term here. "Grudging acceptance, after a humiliating defeat, that one's decisions are not absolutely irrevocable" works better for me.
Can we expect Russell Johnson to talk about being glad we don't have to see Jesus "clearing the race tracks" now that we don't have expanded gamling too?
We can only hope, right?
JB, for Bush, "grudging acceptance" is still more flexibility than I expected. The downside of loyalty is stubbornness. Or so Mrs. SWNID tells me.
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