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.

[arbee4bush]

I am crying now....just emailed my kid who is deployed over there. She is pretty upset about the elections...now this.
Pray for our troops....they will need us so much to show them support.

[halfright]

No!They are nominating Cindy Sheehan! :-)

[KsSunflower]

Is Cheney next???

[gaijin]

Israel is going to get invaded FOR SURE NOW.

[Ben Mugged]

Must be the chili dogs I had for lunch. I'll wake up soon, I know I will......

[Beagle8U]

"who's the next SecDef going to be?"

Likely Murtha or someone just like him. Its what voters wanted...Socialist cowards.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Tommy Franks?

[Txsleuth]

I just heard on Bill O'Reilly's show that Rummy is OUT!

WTH????

I can't believe that Bush did this!!!!!

After having to listen to Pelosi and Reid CROW last night...and now to give them this GIFT????

[rwfromkansas]

Since the Dems won on the theme of change, it may have helped us if he had done so earlier.

Bush can be too stubborn at times.

He is a great guy, but it is true.

[Pirate21]

who's the next SecDef going to be?

Put Vice President Cheney there (he "gets" the war, the nature of the enemy, and what's at stake), and move Secretary Rice to the VP position.

[Alissa]

We still have a Republican controlled Senate until January, right? I'm devastated, this is just frosting on the misery cake.

[Mark was here]

"We go with the Army we have."

He will be missed.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Allen probably would have survived.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

The American people collectively spit on our troops last night.......

Second time in a generation, too.

Look out America, you may yet get the answer to the question "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

[Echo Talon]

Hastert's next

Who is he? Nancy is the Man now. :\

[mhking]

From my AP wire:

Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. Word comes a day after the Democratic gains in the election, in which Rumsfeld was a focus of much of the criticism of the
Iraq war.

[Mo1]

I'm scared

The Libs smell blood in the water

The will defund this war

[The Blitherer]

Alright, if this is true then I say fine. Who's the most hard-line, no nonsense, terrorist butt-kicking Sec of State we can get? THAT'S who I want Bush to nominate.

[tomnbeverly]

here come the calls for the President and VP head... Investigations and IMPEACHMENT... stand by because if you ever thought the rats played fair.. .hahahhahha I am a bastion of cynasim at this point because stay at home Conservatives really don't understand yet what they actually did....

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

A Robert Gates is replacing.