MSNBC/AP Bulletin: Rumsfeld Steps Down

MSNBC/AP | 11.8.06

[mhking]

This is just crossing my desk now; nothing follows yet. According to some sources this is the subject of the noon presser.

[ilgipper]

A bad day keeps getting worse.

[rwgal]

Say it ain't so....

Meadow Muffin

[NorCalRepub]

Just heard it on CNBC also....the Pres will announce at his Press Conference.....

[Raycpa]

Sacrificial lamb.

[Texaggie79]

Glad he waited till we lost.....

[Chena]

OMG!

[TwoSue]

Fox is reporting this, too.

[Caesar Soze]

FNC has picked it up, quoting AP. Now the question is, who's the next SecDef going to be?

[Lazamataz]

In further developments, Cindy Sheehan will be taking the post.

[hispanarepublicana]

Did anybody tell him the election was YESTERDAY?

[Incorrigible]

Goodbye Rummy....

You served your country well.

[I still care]

Rush just said it. He seems exasperated.

[abner]

I'm going to cry now.

[Paradox]

I am sure that Rummy is insisting this time. The President is a loyal man, but Rummy is going to do what he thinks is best.

[DarthVader]

How about Tommy Franks?

[saganite]

Should have happened a year ago.

[Saint Reagan]

What's the point in doing it now? There's not another election until 2008.

[Question_Assumptions]

I disagree. If Rumsfeld resigns, it will rob the Democrats of a punching bag.

[redgolum]

Nuts.

We are in major trouble now.

[frogjerk]

Now the question is, who's the next SecDef going to be?

Pelosi nominates Welsley Clark.

[relee]

Rush said, "Why didn't he resign yesterday?"

Duh!

[Lazamataz]

who's the next SecDef going to be?

Michael Moore.

[Enosh]

Congrats, Rats.

[Terabitten]

FNC has picked it up, quoting AP. Now the question is, who's the next SecDef going to be?

I'm pulling for Russ Honore.

[auto power]

I would love for this to be a false report...just to poke our finger in the MSMedia's eye.

[hispanarepublicana]

The Hammer?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Wesley Clark? Jack Murtha? Barbara Streisand? Janeane Garofolo?

[deputac]

Damn.

Announcement tomorrow will be he's taking Roberts and Alito off the Court and replacing with Miers and O'Connor again to be a "uniter."

[oceanview]

what a mess, its a bloodbath now.

[listenhillary]

Investigation target

[DarthVader]

Pelosi cannot do it. Only the President can.

[Mo1]

Damn!

[RasterMaster]

If Rumsfeld resigns, why did Bush say JUST LAST WEEK that he and Cheney were staying on?

Raise the white flag....yea, that'll fix Iraq. Damn CUT & RUN REPUBLICANS to hell.

[MinuteGal]

The President doesn't have to accept the resignation, but he will.

I hope GW appoints an even more hawkish SOD.

The Demonrats are going to get what they asked for. Trouble is, we get it, too.

Leni

[JohnRam]

Why cry? This should have been done a year ago.

Lack of good planning cost all republicans

[gondramB]

I really thought this wasn't gonna happen.

I'd bet my house Rumsfeld offered to help the President deal with congress.

[Snoopers-868th]

I hope he is replaced with McPain the know-it-all.

[FreedomNeocon]

If true, I give up on Bush... totally and 100%

See you guys in 2yrs...

[sten]

funny... drudge posted within the same minute as the fox gong. drudge losing his connections?

[relee]

Now the question is, who's the next SecDef going to be?

A Democrat Senator I hope!

[Sybeck1]

Jack Bauer?

[TFine80]

I agree.

It is a necessary action as the GOP regroups.

[mewzilla]

We have met the enemy and he is us.

[Raycpa]

This move ends the future endless hearings that Rumsfield would have had to attend to rather than his job. He has no choice.

[Sicon]

I'd like to nominate Jack Murtha to replace Rummy. I mean, if we're going to surrender, let's go all the way!

[bahblahbah]

Reactionary Stupidity

Rumsfeld should have resigned last week if this was the plan all along.

[reagan_fanatic]

Good Lord - I hope this isn't true.

Don't do it, Rummy!

[frogjerk]

Pelosi cannot do it. Only the President can.

DIMS will do it anyway. What are rules to them?

[zbigreddogz]

Rick Santorum?