Bush denied Rumsfeld's resignation twice

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Ramo
Except Dear Leader doesn't think he did anything wrong. He's made that clear many, many times. If he fired Rummy, he would be publicly saying that his administration ****ed up, and thus he did.

which makes offering a resignation (and later announcing that you did, twice) simply a big act of hypocrisy from rumsfeld....

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mark, I think you are just not getting the tradition of resignation offerings. You do it even when you know it'll be turned down for whatever reason.