Today is a good day to be fired

It's already a mystery as to how Donald Rumsfeld still has his job after the fiasco in Iraq, but it's an even bigger mystery how he still has it after his utterances on Tuesday about the stalled intelligence services reform bill:

[Rummy, as quoted in the NYT] And any member of Congress who is "saying that I had blatant opposition to the bill is incorrect because the bill didn't exist in the form that it currently is, and the president didn't have a position on the bill at the times that I was briefing him."

Mr. Rumsfeld noted that House-Senate conference work and negotiations on possible compromise language was continuing and said that "the president's position is evolving as the negotiation evolves."

The President didn't have a position ... his position is evolving? Doesn't this make Dubya sounds like a dangerously nuanced flip-flopper who might even look French? Doesn't Rummy understand that Dubya is more like Moses, who comes down from the mountain with ten clear positions already carved in stone, and not subject to discussion?