Who will take Rummy's place if he resigns? Bush does not have the ability

[patricia92243]

to hire good people (a MUST for a good executive.) So, I just assume he will hire another incompetent, and we have not really changed anything?

[citizen snips]

1. Bush will not let Rummy resign

Rummy has said that he offered his resignation twice to Bush but Bush will not accept his resignation.

[mike_c]

2. Lieberman will be first in line, knee pads at the ready...

...but I doubt very strongly that Rumsfeld will fall on his sword for Bush. Dubya is a pipsqueak tool to Rummy and Cheney.

[tridim]

3. Mel Gibson needs a job

and he seems quite a bit more stable than Rummy.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Don't have a clue, but found this interesting Op-Ed article from 4/2006

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060501&s=trb050106

<snip>
My nominee would be Brent Scowcroft. I'm not a big fan of his rather amoral brand of realism. But, in Iraq today, it hardly matters. Even if Scowcroft wanted to put a pliant dictator in charge of Iraq, at this point, he couldn't. And he would bring key assets to the job. As a retired lieutenant general who also served as national security adviser, he is well-positioned to repair the civil-military gulf that Rumsfeld has created. And, as a vocal war critic from the very beginning, he might win a serious hearing on Capitol Hill and from the American people. If he came out for rapid withdrawal, this goodwill would hardly be necessary; he would be running with the wind. But, if he determined that the United States should stay for a couple more years--that doing so offers at least the fleeting hope that Iraq's center can hold--he might prove able to bring Congress along. He might convincingly tell the American people what Rumsfeld, and Bush himself, never credibly could: that we're all in this Iraq mess together.

Such an appointment, of course, is radically unlikely. It would require Bush to break out of his intellectual bubble, to put his trust in his political adversaries, to very publicly eat crow. A more creative, more honest, more confident leader might do that. And America badly needs such a leader in these grim times. Unfortunately, it has George W. Bush--and likely Donald Rumsfeld, too.




on edit: Not to self: Use SpellCheck!!!!!!!

[DianaForRussFeingold]

5. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LIEBERMAN?:

"07.28.06
Josh Marshall is hyping Juliette Kayyem's speculation that Joe Lieberman might replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. But that speculation seems pretty unfounded, as even Kayyem more or less concedes. "I didn't make this up," she writes, "just have heard it enough to note."

http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=27510

[RufusEarl]

6. He'll have a hard time finding someone to take that post imho,

he had a hard time finding a new secretary of the treasury. I can't imagine people would be lined up to take over for Rummy, Iraq and the military are in such disarray.

[joemurphy]

7. I'd settle for Pee Wee Herman. Less of an ideologue than

Rummy

[MissWaverly]

8. he needs like John Murtha

that knows the army and can intelligently handle strategy, it's what the American people deserve,
will we get it from Bush, NOT.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Joe L.

[corkhead]

10. HeckofaJob Brownie is available

[Totallybushed]

11. Rummy won't resign.

Bush won't ask him to.

So the question is moot.