November's GOP Asshat of the Month

It's kind of surprising that it took this long for the Shrub to be awarded this dubious prize, but President George Bush gets the grand prize for costing his party up to a dozen House seats and two or three Senate seats over his absurd and incoherent handling of the Donald Rumsfeld situation. Four days before the midterm elections, and with John Kerry's dopey joke stealing the headlines, Bush decided to put his own back against the wall by declaring "full speed ahead" allegiance to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld for the remainder of his term. Not 12 hours after getting a "thumpin'" in the November 7 elections, Bush held a press conference to announce that Rumsfeld would indeed be replaced....and that negotiations had been in place for weeks to decide upon that replacement.

Why would Bush tell Americans exactly what they didn't want to hear four days before an election when it wasn't even true? I still scratch my head over this, and am hopeful it's a sign of such tactical weariness of the part of the administration that the Congressional Democrats are able to use him as a doormat for the next two years.