Between the growing Disney/ABC scandal and Bush admitting that the U.S. tortures people in secret prisons, it would be easy to overlook the strong support Rumsfeld got from the GOP Senators yesterday.
Rumsfeld is a disaster. Iraq is a quagmire. Afghanistan is falling apart as evidenced by NATO's plea for reinforcements today. But none of that matters to the GOP. Rummy is their guy and that's all there is to it (unless a member of the GOP is in political trouble -- they can tell the truth about Rumsfeld).
Yesterday, the Senate GOP made it clear they've got his back:
Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., submitted the resolution, which was the latest Democratic attack on the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war. "'Staying the course' is not a strategy for success," the measure said.
Republicans said the move was a political stunt and they stood by Rumsfeld. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, killed the resolution, which contained a nonbinding call for Rumsfeld's ouster. Stevens used a procedural move because the resolution was not germane to the pending Pentagon spending bill.
