D.C. Rumor

Washington D.C. rumor has it that Donald Rumsfeld is resigning his post as Secretary of Defense.

"Yes. Yes," I hear you say. "That has been rumored before. "Ho hum. What else is new?"

The intriguing item about this rumor is that Rumsfeld will be replaced by the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, Connecticut's Senator Joe Lieberman, who recently has earned Brownie Points from the Bush administration by going against his party's values to lick the boots of Republican war-mongerers.

Always a fellow to vacillate between values and what will prudently advance his career, it seems this time he may have hit paydirt.

When Jim Lehrer interviewed the Secretary of Defense last night on his news show, I listened very carefully to Rumsfeld's answer when questioned about the veracity of this rumor.

This is what I heard: [Rumsfeld]: "That fellow who wrote that rumor . . . he has written about my resignation before and has been wrong but someday he is going to have a scoop and be right."

Can we deduce from Rumsfeld's answer, that the the rumor is, indeed, true?
D.C. Rumor © 2005 Chaeli Lee Sullivan