Go Rummy Go

...and take all the rest of them with you.

I know all those retired generals mean well when they call for Donald Rumsfeld scalp (nicely summed up by Maureen Dowd via TN Guerilla Women). They're focused on what's best for the armed services.

And with good reason (via Mountain Runner)

The threat to the military readiness, morale, and overall capability of our armed forces has been real and deepening for sometime, despite SecDef's protests. Some have described this as the Thin Green Line. The threat is real and it is deep and can be readily seen in the politics of returning officers and vets coming out of retirement, example: Pete McCloskey. Don't forget about Representative John Murtha or the political discussions on how the Administration was going to gingerly attack him.

But really their scope is too small. The whole lot of them are rotten, there's a culture of incompetence in the Bush Administration. A denial of facts, reason and reality.

Via Seth Anderson:

Such a strangely stubborn President. I cannot recall a Chief Executive who refused to ever admit making a wrong decision, or one who refused to fire subordinates who had clearly lost the support of underlings, staff. Unless of course, this is a prelude to a 'spend more time with family' moment for Rummy.

In the midterms, incompetence ought to be issue number one. These guys just don't get it. They don't care about governance, they don't understand public administration and they don't want to. They think government is all some kind of grand joke - their personal set of tinker toys.

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