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2010-10-02 Home Front: Politix

Emanuel out, Rouse in as Obama's chief of staff

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Posted by Fred 2010-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Rahm Emanuel 'given dead carp' as farewell gift
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, was given a dead Asian carp as a farewell gift from colleagues before the former presidential aide resigned in order to run for mayor in his home town Chicago.

Posted by tipper 2010-10-02 02:21|| 2010-10-02 02:21|| Front Page Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-10-02 04:13|| 2010-10-02 04:13|| Front Page Top

#3 given a dead Asian carp as a farewell gift from colleagues

I'm amazed! I didn't think they had a sense of humor.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-10-02 09:08|| 2010-10-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 "We could not have accomplished what we've accomplished without Rahm's leadership," Obama said.

"Damned with faint praise" comes instantly to mind.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-10-02 11:53|| 2010-10-02 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 One too many WTF's in White House staff meetings I suspect. Time for a more genteel Chief of Staff who plays well with others.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-02 13:20|| 2010-10-02 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't understand what reason the liberals have to be dissatisfied with Emanuel; everything that they've accomplished has been according to _his_ plan. Get enough liberals into the executive branch pretending to be moderates and independents, and reshape as much of the landscape as possible while in the process of destroying the careers of those individuals, in the hopes of changing the long-term landscape of the US into a bankrupt little socialist/feudalist banana republic. Because, long term, it'll be harder for the conservatives to maintain power when people have to choose between socialist health care and no health care, and noone has any _independence_ to speak of.

There's method to his madness.

He's now retreating to one of the feudalist strongholds to ride out the conservative reaction in the hopes that they won't be able to fix things, and given that they've burned through about three or four trillion dollars worth of seed corn in the past two years, he may be right.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-02 14:26|| 2010-10-02 14:26|| Front Page Top

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