Rahm Emanuel Wants To Be Speaker
Before he was mentioned as a possible Senate successor to Barack Obama, before he helped lead the Democrats back to power in the House, before he was ...
Before he was mentioned as a possible Senate successor to Barack Obama, before he helped lead the Democrats back to power in the House, before he was ...
Rahm Emanuel | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
After Europe, the president should get back on Air Force One and take a US farewell tour -- he can try telling Americans it's all been one big misunderstanding as well. Here are a few suggested stops.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
As the man who guided (and pressured and arm-twisted) Democrats to historic congressional gains in 2006, what is Rep. Rahm Emanuel doing now about par...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Robert Novak reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reported to be privately talking about Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, a...
Chicago Sun Times | Robert Novak | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reported to be privately talking about Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, as the next senator from...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel teased Sen. John McCain on a Friday conference call with reporters, saying the notion that the presumpti...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho. [That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.] I...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
One of the most influential (and thus far subdued) voices in the Democratic primary all but declared the contest over on Friday morning. "At this poi...
Charlie Rose | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the aggressive former Clinton administration aide and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, hasn't yet endor...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media
We're chiming with coverage of Wednesday's Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner in D.C. — check out our exclusive interview with featured...
Ari Emanuel | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
After the democracy-snubbing arrogance of the Bush years, the last thing Democrats should be doing is wavering on our democratic principles.
Washington Post | Rahm Emanuel | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
At the dawn of the 21st century, conventional wisdom was that America held unmatched cultural, economic and military power. George F. Will wrote: "It ...
Dan Brown | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
Mind-bogglingly, the G.O.P. presidential front-runners are embracing this man; John McCain is running on Bush's military policy and Mitt Romney is running on Bush's economic policy.
Newsweek | Jonathan Alter | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics
Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a f...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
There is hope that the Democratic Party might have the good sense not to nominate another mealy-mouthed "moderate" who will "triangulate" against the grassroots base of the party.
David Bromwich | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
This definitive result of the 110th Congress will confirm the popular feeling that George W. Bush believes in his disaster more than the Democrats believe in anything.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Destroying videotaped evidence of CIA personnel torturing Al Qaeda suspects is no small matter. There must be a special select committee formed right now charged with getting to the bottom of this.
LA Times | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
When Rudolph W. Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the spring of 2000, one thing he did not have to worry about was a lack of medical insu...
David Sirota | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
Note: If you are tired of major issues like this getting no coverage in the face of a media blackout and thus you would like to see my nationally synd...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
If you listened closely last night, you could hear echoes of the voter bloc that will, in the long term, counterbalance the weakening pull of the angry white voter.
Pachacutec | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
So, in Virginia, immigration demagoguing didn't help Republicans, and in NY there's really no evidence that immigration demagoguing moved votes to the GOP. At all.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
The turn to make immigration the "New Willie Horton" campaign follows the tried and true logic of Republican race baiters.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics
Until immigrant power makes itself better known through intelligent strategy and intrepid action, the Democrats will continue the rightward tilt.
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Politico | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics