Written by: Beck

The moment actually occurred around 2 AM this morning while watching Headline News on the TV in my room at the Borgata in Atlantic City. The news item was about this article, namely that twice Donald Rumsfeld submitted his resignation to President Bush after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke.

It recalled to mind a Thanksgiving dinner where there had been rather lively political debate with myself on one side and the rest of my extended family on the other (standard Thanksgiving dinner--I look forward to them. Really). And after all that work arguing that Rumsfeld shouldn't feel compelled to resign, it turns out he'd done just that.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he twice offered President Bush his resignation during the height of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, but the president refused to accept it.

In an interview Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live," Rumsfeld said: "I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period and told him that ... I felt that he ought to make the decision as to whether or not I stayed on. And he made that decision and said he did want me to stay on."

Well I'll be damned.