Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff

Rahm Emanuel's Constituents React To His New Job

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago


Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel has accepted Barack Obama's offer to become White House Chief of Staff. And that leaves Illinois' 5th congressional ...

Rahm Emanuel: "Mr. President... You Can Have Your Water Wings"

Fortune/ CNN Money | Nina Easton | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics


(Washingion D.C) Fortune -- On a wretchedly hot August day outside the Caterpillar tractor plant in Montgomery, Ill., President Bush and the state's c...

Rahm Emanuel: Knife Fighter, A Look Back

The New York Times | Elisabeth Bumiller | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


The best Rahm Emanuel story is not the one about the decomposing two-and-a-half-foot fish he sent to a pollster who displeased him. It is not about t...

Raaaaaaaaahm!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media


If Obama has a mandate, how better to shepherd it through? Rahm Emanuel means business -- he keeps his goals in sight and he gets things done. That's the kind of guy needed to handle the fierce urgency of now. I'm sure he does fiercely urgent reeeaaaally well.

Rahm Emanuel And David Axelrod: The Closest Of Friends

Rolling Stone | Tim Dickinson | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics


Rahm Emanuel has reportedly been tapped for Obama's Chief of Staff. He's undoubtedly qualified and has the enforcer mentality the job may just requir...

Why Rahm Is Right

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Eric Schmeltzer

Though I don't know Rahm Emanuel personally, I know those who deal with him. He's a ball-buster, to put it bluntly and, as Chief of Staff, can keep Democrats thinking long-term.

Rahm Emanuel's Valentines Day Jokes: "Valentine's Day Is When Dick Cheney Fantasizes About Waterboarding"

Politico | Anne Schroeder Mullins | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


The Washington Press Club dinner is the beginning of the end of sorts. Every year it officially marks the start of Prom season, ala the rubber chicken...

Rahm Emanuel: How He Won The '06 Elections

GQ | Ryan Lizza | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


This is back in September, nearly six weeks before the massive landslide that would upend the U.S. Congress, and Rahm Emanuel is looking grim. He's si...

Sam Stein

Clyburn: Rahm Would Make A Great Chief Of Staff

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


One of the highest-ranking Democrats in the House of Representatives offered an endorsement of his colleague Rahm Emanuel to take over the duties of W...

Another FDR? Not Quite

Rahm Emanuel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Rahm Emanuel

Praising the president for merely attempting to clean up the mess he helped make is one thing, but comparing him to Roosevelt is quite another.