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Another Big Resignation

Category: Hot Off The Presses

Monday, November 15, 2004

Today it's Colin Powell:

Colin Powell has resigned as secretary of state, becoming the latest member of President Bush's Cabinet to depart for his second term, sources told NBC News on Monday.

UPDATE: From ABC News: Condoleeza Rice to Be Named Secretary of State.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Seriously, how far is it possible to fail upward in this administration?

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more frightening: who will replace Rice?

ABC says it is going to be Stephen Hadley, Rice's deputy.

Mr. Hadley is perhaps best known for -- yes, I can't believe this either -- taking the blame for inserting the later-proved-incorrect "Saddam Hussein tried to get uranium from Africa" into President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3088597.stm

So apparently the consequence of causing perhaps one of the biggest embarrassments the Administration has seen yet is... a promotion!

Unbelievable.

"Seriously, how far is it possible to fail upward in this administration?"

Um, you saw who was at the top of the winning ticket on November 2, right?

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