These are the Stakes

Oversight of the Bush Administration, or not? Oversight under the Republican Congress has withered and interbranch checking has failed.

If you want those in political power to require the Administration to account for itself and why it has failed in Iraq, vote the Democrats into power in Congress.

There is no simpler way to say it.

Rumsfeld to Stay or Go?

Saturday's Army Times and related publications are carrying an editorial stating that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should go. The editorial says he has lost credibility:

Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.

And the editorial couldn't be more starkly in conflict with President Bush, who rather than hint that Rumsfeld might go after the elections, reaffirmed this week that Rumsfeld will stay until the end of his presidency.

Now, if you don't want men like Donald Rumsfeld in charge of the Department of Defense, there is only one election to vote in: the Congressional midterms. Vote for people who will force President Bush to change the incredible man in charge of his military policy.