Murtha Calls For Rumsfeld to Resign

It's been obvious for more than three years that Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is incompetent and not exactly an honest man. Rummy has repeatedly misled Congress and the Republican leaders allow themselves to be repeatedly rolled by him. S.W. Anderson of Oh!Pinion has a post on the effort by Murtha to call for Rumsfeld's resignation:

If Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld isn’t paranoid, it can only be because he’s got an exceptionally thick skin and high tolerance for having dissatisfied people pushing hard for him to move on.

Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., upped the dump-Rumsfeld ante Wednesday, with a resolution urging the secretary to resign immediately. (H/T to the Huffington Post.)

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Note that these aren’t just the opinions of a nonfan. These are all matters of public record going back four years. We can’t recall a situation in all U.S. history where a Cabinet official has been allowed to build a record of decisions, policies and results this bad for this long. Nor can we recall one who’s had so many highly placed people saying he’s got to go.

I've heard some argue that it's a waste of time to keep asking for Rumsfeld's resignation but I think it's important to highlight the fact that Bush, despite repeated blunders, continues to surround himself with ideologues and incompetents and that the Republican-controlled Congress refuses to deal with the fiasco that is the Bush presidency.