It looks Rahm Emanuel is done. Dana Milbank transcribed an article written by Rahm Emanuel today in The Washington Post. Never has an article been more clearly written to support a political benefactor.
As I was reading the article lavishing praise on Rahm Emanuel and throwing dirt on everyone else inside the White House, I kept thinking two things. First, how many leaks has Rahm given Milbank over the years? How much do they love each other? Milbank gets a cherished inside source so he can seem like he's got the scoop on what's happening in DC and Rahm gets a hatchet man that'll write whatever he tells him to, I mean whatever he leaks to him as "important inside information."
My second thought was, "Wow, what a hatchet job on Jarrett, Gibbs and Axelrod!" Since Rahm is obviously feeding this to Milbank, that is very revealing. You don't throw these kinds of bombs unless you've already lost. This is an act of desperation. It's bound to make mortal enemies of these people inside Obama's inner circle. You can't really work with these people anymore. That means you're already finished there.
This is basically Rahm saying on his way out, I was right all along and these guys were wrong. Maybe it's a last minute attempt at a Hail Mary to swing the decision in his favor if he can start a conversation in DC about how he had offered better advice than the other three to Obama (by the way, everything he claims to have been right about inside the article was disastrous advice that led Obama further and further away from his voters). But either way, that means he thinks he is very close to being on his way out the door.
For my part, I don't think it will work at all. It seems desperate, vindictive, political and obvious. If Obama was still considering which direction he was going to go, I think this will certainly cinch it. He hates these kinds of leaks and this kind of internal dissension. Rahm is done. Thank God.
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I think this is good. My son wants to become an engineer or a physicist and I think he should become an accountant or a lawyer. As we move our agenda forth (health care, business takeover, fairness doctrine, etc.), law and servicing the tax code will become even bigger business. As I've told him, I will not pay for him to practice free market principles.
More Republicans are at the 180K level, and I think that the more leins and imprisonment we can get for them, the better. LOOK AT THE TEABAGGERS!!! LOL!!!
after working in education i would talk him out of working in engineering or physics on very simple bases -- does he want to spend all that time in school to work for peanuts for a defense contractor? is he as misguided in thinking real jobs exist in the free market in these fields?
war is big buisness in the united states -- i think at some point dismantling war will be even bigger business. learning the difference between military guns and gaining some auctioneer experience in multiple languages -- i am thinking asian -- korean, japanese, chinese -- might come in handy soon.
Our people will rule by continually increasing complexity of government, certifying that their opponents are stupid and unworthy (like the tea-baggers) and by invoking a body of law that will originate from something similar to Kerry et. al "The Fairness Doctrine".
This will be great for the status and economic well being of attorneys, accountants and social workers. These are the reasons that our children should concentrate not on science, but on community activism, law and accounting.
I think that Jane Hamsher is smart but that no one is as smart as s/he thinks s/he is.
Does anyone has a timeline when this might be? The sooner the better.
Ir RE's dumb ideas appeared reasonable to Obama what does that really say about the President?
Democrats dont govern well
Republicans govern badly
Poltiics is about being in a snakepit and Rahm is a good snake.
Peace On...brothers and sisters
That would be change I could believe in.
The only misgivings I have about him leaving at this time is that Sarah Palin is going to take credit for forcing him to resign.
It was a convoluted world of wheels within deals, and Obama picked a very canny guide. I'm willing to bet he's got what he needed... he knows the bad guys, the good guys and the ones he can use. Emanuel didn't lead the president (I'm in full-on Hope Mode here) he was a hired tutor. Obama will use that information to lean further to the left (not anywhere near as far as we want) and to force the Congress back into action.
Please let me be right. I need a job. Talking to y'all is fun, but I'd rather see faces.
What's happened with Rahm as his chief advisor is everything is politics, the WH is being run like a campaign office....when something bad happens; the White House ends up having to react to it like they would during a campaign instead of being proactive and out in front of the issue.
Very similar situation to the Bush Admin. in a lot of ways.
I think the problem is President Obama got exactly what he wanted in Rahm and, for that matter, Joe Biden. Rahm is a DLC hatchet man known for freezing out the Democratic base in favour of corporate donors and Joe Biden is a creature of the Senate and its chummy institutional complacency.