Rumsfeld is stepping down!

This has made me happier than anything else about the elections today.

I was expecting the Democrats to do well, so I didn't get excited this morning when I heard the results.

I wasn't expecting Harold Ford to win my home state, so the results didn't particularly depress me on that point. (Although I am once again left thinking, how is it possible that I come from that land?)

But now, finally, the news that is giving me a happy excited buzz: Donald Rumsfeld will no longer be the Secretary of Defense. That one I was not expecting, at least not this soon.

Now I've got to find out about this Robert Gates guy.