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8:20 PM ET, November 8, 2006

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Associated Press:
GOP officials: Rumsfeld stepping down  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said Wednesday.  —  Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.
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Think Progress:
VIDEO: Bush Admits He Lied About Rumsfeld For Political Purposes »  —  Last week, President Bush unequivocally told a group of reporters that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney would "remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee …
CNN:
Rumsfeld quitting as defense secretary  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down from his post.  —  "The timing is right for new leadership at the Pentagon," Bush said at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
Jim Young / MSNBC:
Bush announces Rumsfeld stepping down  —  President taps ex-CIA chief Gates to replace embattled defense secretary  —  After six years on the job, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will resign, President said Wednesday.  —  NBC VIDEO … WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld …
White House:
Press Conference by the President  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  I say, why all the glum faces?  —  Yesterday, the people went to the polls and they cast their vote for a new direction in the House of Representatives.  And while the ballots are still being counted in the Senate …
Fox News:
DONALD RUMSFELD RESIGNING AS DEFENSE SECRETARY  —  WASHINGTON — Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down as defense secretary and former CIA Director Robert Gates will be nominated to take his place.  —  Rumsfeld, President Bush's sole defense secretary in six years of leadership …
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld to Step Down as Defense Secretary  —  Bush Taps Former CIA Director Robert Gates as Successor  —  President Bush today announced he is replacing Donald H. Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, saying a "fresh perspective" is needed at the Pentagon to deal with the war in Iraq.
Associated Press:
Bush says Rumsfeld is stepping down  —  WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday, one day after midterm elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican losses.  —  President Bush said he would nominate Robert Gates …
David Stout / New York Times:
Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary After Big Election Gains for Democrats  —  Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the hard-driving and super-confident Pentagon boss who came to symbolize President Bush's controversial Iraq policy, is resigning, President Bush announced today.
Kristin Roberts / Reuters:   Democrats' win alone won't drive Rumsfeld out
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
I Question The Timing, And The Sanity
Discussion: ABCNEWS
John O'Neil / New York Times:
A Virginia Recount Would Not Come Soon  —  Virginia's election laws allow an apparent loser to request a recount if a contest's margin is less than 1 percent — and the margin in the preliminary results of the state's Senate election stood this morning at about one-third of 1 percent.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
No.  —  I ask you, considering the margins that we are looking at this morning in a whole lot of the races that the Democrats won yesterday, in both the House and the Senate, what was Rahm Emmanuel thinking saying this: … Let me get this straight, we have just taken back the House and …
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Washington Post:
A Voter Rebuke For Bush, the War And the Right
Bull Moose:
KOSenfreude*  —  The Moose gloats and kvells.  —  There is great joy in Mooseland.  The nutroots have struck out.  Joe Lieberman has prevailed.  The vital center is victorious!  —  Read and weep, dear nutroots, … Yes, there is justice.  Joe took a brave stand by putting country before party.
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
'Liberated' Lieberman Likely to Be Courted by Both Sides
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Democrats win House; Senate now tied  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats won a cliffhanger race in Montana on Wednesday that brought them to the brink of control of the Senate, after Americans sick of scandal and weary of war ended the Republican majority in the House.
Democracy in America:
Libertarians emerge as a force … Categories: … GLUM Republicans might turn their attention to the Libertarian Party to vent their anger.  Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain.
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Just A Step Forward—But What a Step!  —  Here is where we stand right now:  — National Sweep.  Democrats take the national majority in the House, Senate, Governors, and State Legislatures.  The only thing Republicans have left—Bush—still sports a sub-40% approval rating.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Always Look on the Bright Side of Life  —  This column is scrupulously nonpartisan, but we will bend the rules for a moment and acknowledge that last night's outcome was not what we were hoping for.  As of now, the Democrats have picked up 28 House seats, giving them at least 228 (a majority is 218).
Discussion: Gay Patriot and Daimnation!
Mike Allen / Time:
Hastert Will Step Down  —  Exclusive: The Speaker bows out of the Republican leadership after Democrats take his power.  The contest to succeed him will help define the Republican Party in a new era of divided government.  —  House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Wonkette
rushlimbaugh.com:
I Feel Liberated  —  RUSH: Just to reiterate, ladies and gentlemen: "It's going to get worse before it gets better."  I'm not trying to be negative.  I'm trying to prepare you here for what is coming.  It is obvious from the president's press conference that his view is …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
 
 
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Murphy appears to have beaten Fitzpatrick
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Many dead ends in Iraq
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The Great Victory - crushing the developing myths
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
An Overdue Reckoning
Patrick Walters / Associated Press:
Specter urges GOP to re-evaluate priorities after election losses
Discussion: The Corner
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GOP ceded the center and paid the price
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Post Mortem  —  THIS ONE IS PRETTY EASY TO EXPLAIN.
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Hamas urges attacks on U.S. targets
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
What happened last night?
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Netroots Victories  —  The media and the right-wing blogospehre used …
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