Republicans such as Newt Gingrich and Arlen Specter say that Bush should have announced Rumsfeld's resignation before the elections. This they are convinced would have kept the Republicans in charge of Congress. Apparently both Gingrich and Specter believe that Iraq and Rumsfeld was why Republicans lost the election, and that could every well be the reason that the Democrats voted against the Republicans (haha). But the Republicans lost because they were expanding government, increasing spending and giving amnesty to illegal aliens. The GOP voters were so sick and tired of these acts, more worthy of a Democrat controlled government than a Republican one, that they stayed at home, and now the country will suffer.
But I believe there is a silver-lining to this cloud: after two years of a Democratic controlled Congress, the American people(including the GOP voters) are gong to flood the streets in 2008 to vote against whoever the Democrats nominate for President, Hillary or whomever.