Going after the wrong guy

It appears that Congressional Democrats are planning to stage a no-confidence vote about Don Rumsfeld:

The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, who has so far survived mounting calls for his resignation over Iraq, is to be pitched into the centre of the American midterm election fight by Democrats who are convinced that he is the Bush administration's achilles heel.

Senior Democratic members of Congress say they will seek a no-confidence vote in Mr Rumsfeld, who is under fire for a speech this week in which he compared opponents of the Iraq war to those who supported the appeasement of Adolf Hitler before the second world war.

I think they think this makes them look tough, but in my mind it just shows how weak-kneed they are. If they had any guts, they would hold a no confidence vote on Bush, but they're too frightened of him. Rummy is just a surrogate here.