I wonder the people currently clambering for Rumsfeld’s head would feel if his replacement were, say, Karl Rove? The president’s brain will soon have some time on his hands to explore other opportunities.
Just a thought.
But seriously, if you believe that Rummy’s not cutting it, and it’s really hard to argue that he is, what reason do you have to believe that a replacement would be any better? The same guy who appointed Rummy, etc, would be making the selection, after all.
So is the call for Rummy’s head actually a vote of confidence in the President? Apparently.
Point taken. Of course the most Machievellian thing Bush could do is accept Rummy’s resignation and then appoint Liberman to the job, who of course would not do any better, except on the human rights abuses.
But that’d put Ned Lamont in the Senate pronto, as a by-product.
Which might happen anyway, so I guess it’s better to get the revolt of the generals out of the way before the Ct. primary.
Circular reasoning. The point of applying external pressure to the President is to ask him to do something he doesn’t want to do, under threat of ‘I-told-you-so’ pressures when his decisions prove non-optimal. In other words, it’s all just posturing for future leverage.