rone | throw out the bum... or not

thanks to dagbrown for the link

"Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had," Cheney said in a statement from his office late on Saturday.

Wow... BEST. DEFENSE SEC'Y. EVAR. Rumsfeld, in many more ways than one, is no Robert McNamara, you know? Sure, he's unpopular because the media hate his snobbish, condescending attitude. And his memory is very selective, and he loves playing silly buggers with semantics. But does that mean he's doing a BAD job? No! But IS he doing a bad job? Well... yeah.

"Americans want to keep Rumsfeld on the job. Why? Because the guy in the glasses they see on TV is the guy who is protecting them by going after the terrorists. That's who he is to the average American. That's the place he's earned since 9/11," [Cheney spokestoad Kevin] Kellems said.

Does that mean that Tom "Eddie Munster" Ridge isn't doing squat and we can fire his ass?

Seriously, [yes, i'm starting a paragraph with a lonely adverb, i know] should Rumsfeld lose his job? It's not going to help the Iraq situation, because that's White House policy, and Rumsfeld might have instigated it, but getting rid of him isn't going to change it. Removing him from office would be symbolic at best. As Todd McComb pointed out, it would be like a sports team firing the coach after a bad season, when the problem is the suck-ass players and the clowns who put the team together. Would i be glad to see him go? Probably. Will he be replaced by someone better? Unlikely. Will things improve? Well, i don't want to say, "they can't get any worse," because so far, they are.

In other news, on MSNBC, there was some Flash movie that depicted the greenhouse effect in our atmosphere, and described one of the phases thus: "The Earth absorbs heat from the sun and radiates it back into space in the form of infrared radiation." Much in the way the seas absorb rain from the skies, which then evaporates back into the air in the form of dihydrogen monoxide, i'm guessing.