11.08.2006

Feeling Good

I'm feeling pretty good today. I am pleased with how the election turned out, although I am surprised that James Leach lost his bid for a sixteenth term in the House. I thought that the Democrats would take control of the House of Representatives, but it looks like they are going to be the majority in the Senate as well. I think that a lot of the seats they won were not necessarily because they had the better candidate, but because people were dissatisfied with Congress and the president. If these democrats don't get their act together pretty quick and start getting things done, I fear that they are likely to lose their majorities in two years.

On a similar note, President Bush today said that Donald Rumsfeld's resignation from his position as defense secretary was actually in the works before the election, even though Bush had recently said that he planned on Rumsfeld staying in that role through the end of his term in 2009. Today he said that he "didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign." That sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Bush had been campaigning hard for Republican candidates for ten days before the election. I am sure he hoped for Republicans to maintain control in the legislative branch, and if thought this would have helped to win the election, he would have done it beforehand.

1 comment:

Brent said...

Even if Rumsfeld had stepped down before the election, it wouldn't have helped. Too many people are angry. And the pressure for him to leave was to great. Even the military wanted him out, but they wouldn't say anything until the top brass retired.