According to the article below, Newt Gingrich -- architect of the 1994 Republican Revolution and Contract With America -- had recommended the President dump Mr. Rumsfeld for that very reason....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_rumsfeld
2006-11-13 02:33:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Considering exit polls showed more people were concerned with the recent scandals than with the war, probably not...but it might have been closer.
I have to admit I'm surprised to see changes happening so quickly though... apparently Dubya is not actually a president-shaped cd player with 'stay the course' stuck on infinite repeat after all. I mean this man has been beating his head against this particular brick wall for years now... while some 6 billion or so people throughout the world said 'Uh, buddy... you fu.cked up and this is NOT actually working' and all it took was a thorough official trouncing of the GOP to get him to realize that maybe SOMEbody ought to be looking for actual solutions. So I guess he's not entirely brain dead after all, but it still bears mentioning that my eleven year old niece was able to figure out that Iraq wasn't going very well quite some time ago.
Of course it remains to be seen if anybody can really pull our collective American butts out of this mess, but at least we have some hope.
2006-11-13 14:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by sueflower 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-22 00:24:57 · answer #2 · answered by corl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it, , the government runs in cycles, I dont know anyone that has ever plotted it out though, Democrats will get in until the American people are tired of being taxed to death, then the republicans will take office,, give everyone a 1000 dollar " tax cut" and same as gas prices, they will ream us again,, but the people stand for it,
2006-11-13 02:35:53 · answer #3 · answered by rich2481 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Sick of all the Republican Greed! Voted Democrate to change things! Getting rid of Rummy would not matter to me one bit!
2006-11-13 02:42:11 · answer #4 · answered by LoveMyLife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This wouldve just added fuel to the argument.
2006-11-13 03:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-11-13 02:38:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋