No one is dumber than me. We know this. But even I, at the time, was stunned by Rumsfield waiting til AFTER the election to resign. I was shocked; why wouldn't he resign BEFORE, therein at least helping out his own party's candidates? A complete dumbass move, I remember thinking; shocked that those at the top could be so politically....well, dumb. Seriously dumb. Who was the wizard behind this one? These people can't even figure out the correct selfish political moves to help themselves out? Wtf?
And now this info comes out (via Andrew Sullivan.) I know I'm a broken record, but again, the sheer stupidy of such political timing. Unreal. Who's advising these people? Seriously, is it only a matter of time before Dubya proudly announces that he's put Bin Laden in charge of our airports? Then is SHOCKED at our chagrin of course. But then we are reminded of what might have been the downfall of this numbfuck's administration in the first place:
Unless you believe the account that Bush had NO IDEA that his Secretary of Defense had written him a letter before the election, it suggests that GWB didn’t want to accept the resignation because it would seem as if he was caving into his critics before an election. He wanted to appear steadfast. But after the election, when the enormity of his party’s loss and Karl Rove’s bad advance “math” became evident, he accepted it. So pride seemed to trump a wise policy (in this case political) decision.
Stupidity plus pride. what a combo. Feel good about this being our President's makeup?
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