Out of Egypt:

Rumsfeld resigns...

...and the whole country rejoices.

Say what you will about Bush, he knows how to make his advisors take the heat. It happened with Ashcroft, now it's happened with Rumsfeld. It's actually kind of a brilliant strategy - if you have radical views, get someone working for you who has more radical views, and when people object to the whole deal, then that person can be the scapegoat.

At least I think that's what going on. And perhaps that was what was going on with the whole Miers thing (except in reverse, sort of), although that may be too clever by half.

And to finish up my thoughts on Santorum vs. Casey, it's not that I think Casey will be a bad senator. I think he'll actually be great, possibly better than Santorum was. I just didn't want the Dems to get a majority, or for there to be deadlock. But that's happened now, and would've happened even had the PA swung the other way. (Although that apparently wasn't likely, since the vote wasn't even as close as I thought it would be. PA voters were in a "throw the bums out" mood, just as I suspected that they were.)