And they're out!

After six years and countless calls for his resignation, Donald Rumsfeld finally quit today--less than a week after President Bush declared that Rummy would remain at the Pentagon through the end of his term. Funny how things change when your party loses control of the House of Representatives and, quite likely, the Senate too (as of 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, it appeared that Jon Tester had enough of a lead to declare victory over Republican incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana and in Virginia, Democratic challenger Jim Webb led GOP Senator George Allen--the incumbent best known outside the state for calling a Webb volunteer of Indian descent "macaca" on camera--by about 6,700 votes out of more than 2.3 million cast. That Virginia margin is small enough (less than 1 percent) though, that a recount is likely. And, according to the NY Times, the results may not come for several weeks.
In the meantime, though, the Democrats can enjoy the first majority they've held in Congress--and in gubernatorial races--in a dozen years. Whether they'll be able to do much with it, under a Republican president (even an unpopular one), is another question.