What an odd press conference. Did I hear wrong or did Bush basically say that last week, when he assured America that Rumsfeld would stay on for the rest of this administration, they were already looking for the guy's replacement? I lived through a period when any time Bill Clinton said anything that could possibly be spun as a contradiction, my Republican friends pounced on it as proof that the man was a congential liar who was emotionally unable to speak the truth.
Isn't it amazing that Bush's policies don't seem to be bringing the kind of democracy he wanted to Iraq but they seem to have just caused a shining example of it at work here in this country? Whether you agree or not with the way this election came out, there's something very American about the people voting and the government changing as a result of that vote. A lot of people don't go to the polls because they feel, with ample evidence, that it doesn't matter; that the folks in power are going to do what they want to do and trading one for another is meaningless. But here — and again, leave aside for the moment any question of the proper course of action — Americans voted and things are different this morning. (And I don't mean just that Rumsfeld's out. That was decided some time ago, apparently.)
Someone on Fox News just said that everyone should try and find something to be happy about today. I think I'll be happy that I wasn't around Dick Cheney last night when he was armed and getting the news.