Tom and Joe and John and Nancy...

...and me.

Heck, even the whole damn editorial board of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Since I called on Donald Rumsfeld to resign a couple days ago, the roster of Rumsfeld routers has grown quite a bit. Nancy Pelosi's on board. So is Joe Biden, and Tom Harkin, and Tom Friedman, and John Corzine. The list doubtless grows as I type.

In fact, I'm sure it does, and courtesy of the DCCC, you can add your name to the rolls.

Sign the petition!

Don't get your hopes up too high, though. Josh Marshall, as usual, offers wise counsel.

"Confirmation hearings for a new Sec Def would, I think, inevitably turn into a national forum for discussing the management of the Pentagon, the planning for the war and the lack of planning for the occupation. The new nominee would be drawn into all sorts of uncomfortble public second-guessing of what's happened up until this point. Sure, that's stuff under Rumsfeld. But, really, it's stuff under Bush -- the civilian head of the United States military.

"That, I have to imagine, is something the White House would like to avoid at any cost."

I imagine he's right. But let's make the cost as high as possible, anyway.

By the way, let's not forget "Kerry called for Rumsfeld's resignation in September 2003, accusing him of underestimating the demands of the Iraq war and weakening the military as a result, and he restated that call Thursday."

Our hero, ahead of the curve...