{"id":1550,"date":"2006-11-08T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/rumsfelds-resignation.html"},"modified":"2006-11-08T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:57:00","slug":"rumsfelds-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/rumsfelds-resignation.html","title":{"rendered":"Rumsfeld&#8217;s Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that Bush was going to give a press conference today, I thought about what I would do if I were him and the first thought I had was, &#8220;OK, you don&#8217;t want me to fight this war, fine.  How about I give you exactly what you want.  You want Rumsfeld gone?  Fine!  Whatever the Democrats want they&#8217;ll get.  I hope you choke on it.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut then I thought, &#8220;No, Bush is a better leader than that.&#8221;  Evidently, I was wrong.  I guess he can now freely embrace his inner Democrat.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my prediction: now that Rumsfeld is gone and Bush is acting <s>like a trained poodle<\/s> subdued and the Iraqi government sees that they only have a short window to get their act together before we start removing our troops and the press no longer has to hide the good news from Iraq, and now that the Democrats can take credit for it,  then everything will be great in Iraq.<br \/>\nNow for something that made me feel a little better about my New Jerseyans these are the counties that went for Kean:<br \/>\nCape May County<br \/>\nHunterdon County<br \/>\nMonmouth County<br \/>\nMorris County<br \/>\nOcean County<br \/>\nSalem County<br \/>\nSomerset County<br \/>\nSussex County<br \/>\nWarren County<br \/>\nJust to let you know there are still some people in NJ who don&#8217;t want a Senator who is under federal criminal investigation and we will elect someone who supports Bush and the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bush\" rel=\"tag\">Bush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rumsfeld\" rel=\"tag\">Rumsfeld<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that Bush was going to give a press conference today, I thought about what I would do if I were him and the first thought I had was, &#8220;OK, you don&#8217;t want me to fight this war, fine. How about I give you exactly what you want. You want Rumsfeld gone? Fine!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rumsfeld&#039;s Resignation - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/rumsfelds-resignation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rumsfeld&#039;s Resignation - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I heard that Bush was going to give a press conference today, I thought about what I would do if I were him and the first thought I had was, &#8220;OK, you don&#8217;t want me to fight this war, fine. 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