White House officials expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, following the elections and new government in Iraq, according to a story in the New York Daily News.
Rummy's deputy Gordon England heads the short list to replace him. The bad news: there are rumors that sawed-off ferret-faced Republicrat Sen. Joe Lieberman is on the list too.
Rummy wanted out a year ago, but both he and The President didn't want it to look like he was being run out on a rail. "They didn't want to give the critics the satisfaction that their piling on was what got rid of him," a Bush adviser said.
The article goes on to say that Bush has told friends that Rumsfeld is a political liability.
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