So Rummy stays on

So, sooner rather than later, John Snow gets shown the door. Reading this article by Arianna Huffington from a short year and a half ago, one marvels (and yet doesn't, this is the Bush League after all) that he was ever chosen to be Treasury Secretary in the first place.

Staggeringly, and yet absolutely not worthy of raising an eyebrow if you think about it (this is the Bush League after all), the cabinet member who made the most notable hash of his job the first time around, Donald Rumsfeld, is going to survive the current round of house cleaning. Bull Moose has a brief commentary here.

I've figured it out. If Bush has figured out how to get away with the most mind-bogglingly bad choices he possibly could, he will (see his current plan to fund the new addition to the tax cut by taking away business incentives to help with employee health insurance). I think it has something to do with keeping liberals (and anyone else paying attention) in a constant state of paralyzed disbelief...