Posted by Dan Ewert : 12/07/2003 10:57:00 PM (Archive Link)
All the Non-News That's Fit to Print

This article is a little old, but interesting nonetheless. Reuters reported last November that 26 House members were introducing a resolution urging President Bush to fire Rumsfeld. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) trumpeted that he had 25 co-sponsors for the bill and the reporting makes it seem like this is a big deal. However, keep in mind that there are 435 members in the House of Representatives. 26 members make up just 6% of the total which is pretty minuscule. Add this to the fact that the resolution in question will never come up for a vote and even if it had, obviously wouldn’t have passed, and what we have here is a time-wasting non-story about a non-event. There is no significance at all to this proposed resolution. It’s just another way for a few disgruntled liberals to remind everybody how little they like Bush and Cabinet. It’s nice of Reuters, though, to report on this meaningless minutiae and give Rangel a little bit of publicity since that’s all he was looking for anyway.