The Republicans are working harder to save their own asses this November, and that includes eating their own:

U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis has joined the growing chorus of those who believe Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be out of a job.

“I told my husband that when (Sen.) Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) came out and said he should resign, it’s probably the only thing in my life I’ve ever agreed with Hillary Clinton about,” said Davis, R-Gloucester.

Clinton’s call came on Aug. 3 after she dressed down Rumsfeld before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

The unusual aspect of Davis’ stance is that she is a Republican. In her most public comments on the issue in her district, Davis said she has felt this way about Rumsfeld for awhile.

“I’ve made no bones about it the last two years,” Davis told members of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the American Society of Military Comptrollers on Thursday. “He’s probably a nice guy, but I don’t think he’s a great secretary of defense.”

Later she amended her “nice guy” assessment by saying Rumsfeld had come across as arrogant in her dealings with him, which stretch back to committee work during her freshman term in Congress, in 2001.

Interesting how that works – she has felt this way about Rumsfeld “for awhile” yet only comes out and says it less than 3 months from the primary. This shows that Rep. Davis is playing politics and doing so at the cost of the lives of our soldiers and Iraqi citizens. Her saying Rumsfeld should go at this point in the game means she really deserves no votes this fall.