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November 06, 2008
Man With The Worst Temper Rahm Emanuel is Chief of Staff
Obama picks Clinton alum Emanuel chief of WH staff
Obama pivoted quickly to begin filling out his new administration on Wednesday, selecting hard-charging Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff while aides stepped up the pace of transition work that had been cloaked in pre-election secrecy.
In offering the post of White House chief of staff to Emanuel, Obama turned to a fellow Chicago politician with a far different style from his own, a man known for his bluntness as well as his single-minded determination.
Emanuel was a political and policy aide in Bill Clinton's White House. Leaving that, he turned to investment banking, then won a Chicago-area House seat six years ago. In Congress, he moved quickly into the leadership. As chairman of the Democratic campaign committee in 2006, he played an instrumental role in restoring his party to power after 12 years in the minority.
Wild Thing's comment........
Obama wants a thug and leg breaker as Chief of Staff. The Daley Machine comes to Washington. So much for Obama's " CHANGE" . This is not change, it is the same ole stuff from the dem party.
They are going to self-destruct. They are setting up a fascist government and will be destroyed by their own overreaching criminality. This is a big mistake. You don’t appoint a knife-man as your Chief of Staff. That position requires a lot of different things. A knife-man in that position will end up being hated by his own side more than the opposition. He controls access to the President and has to have some level of diplomacy and tact . He will be making enemies before too long of even the press, now that part will be a good thing. I am thinking that maybe, just maybe, tha nastier they are the better it is for us, in the long run.
OH an one other thing. I remember once Bill Clinton said If the Republicans would have swung hard right on Conservative principles they would have locked the house and senate for a decade... amazing how every Dem can see it but our own GOP/RNC can't.
Here are some notes on this jerk Emanuel:
In a world where congressmen refer to each other as "my distinguished colleague," Emanuel, 46, is sometimes unable to get through a single sentence without several obscenities. His politics are centrist, but his style is extremist. The top of his right middle finger was severed when he was a teenager, adding to his aura of toughness--especially when he extends that middle finger, which he does with some regularity.--Chicago Trib.
This is from Rolling Stone.com
The Enforcer
He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala, who served with Emanuel on Clinton's staff.
There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him.
....the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."
And this.........
Heard Rove talking to Neil Cavuto about this appointment. According to Rove, Emanuel is a real nasty guy who, as a top advisor to Bill Clinton, would regularly get in the face of Republicans in Congress over their votes on legislation. According to Rove, this wasn’t the job of the President’s advisor, but rather the party chief (Whip?) Rove said there is no love lost between Emanuel and Hillary Clinton, because Emanual forced Hillary’s health care plan to take a back seat to other pressing issues more expedient to Bill’s political future. Rove also said that during last night’s speech, Obama made the claim that he wanted bi-partisanship, but with this appointment, he appears to be going in exactly the opposite direction, because Emanuel is a very partisan person.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 6, 2008 05:54 AM
Comments
Now we know how obamanation will be run:
http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=9299280
Don't forget to spread the wealth.
LOL
Posted by: Duane at November 6, 2008 08:58 AM
Yep, Chicago thuggery. Emanuel already knows his way around Washington DC, so he will not need any break in time. He can get to work right away being a thug. Like you say WT, maybe he will tick off enough people to end up being a liability to Obama.
Obama's inner circle choices are probably going to be a cast of radical characters and criminals that would keep Eliot Ness very busy for four years.
Posted by: TomR at November 6, 2008 10:25 AM
Obama's implementation of his bipartisan administration.
Rahm Emanuel wanted to wrap up the 2006 campaign with a message for the Republicans. "Since my kids are gone, I can say it," he shouted. "They can go fuck themselves!"
Posted by: Les at November 6, 2008 02:28 PM
Duane, Hahahhaa thanks for the link.
Your right this is how he will run his time in office.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 6, 2008 05:06 PM
Tom, great way to put it, and I bet this does happen too.
"Obama's inner circle choices are probably going to be a cast of radical characters and criminals that would keep Eliot Ness very busy for four years."
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 6, 2008 05:09 PM
Les, Yes that is it!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 6, 2008 05:11 PM
Doesn't he remind you of Imhotep from the Mummy movies?
What a jerk this guy is, but the sending dead fish is still kind of funny, like the guy did to the TPS reports in Office Space.
Posted by: Lynn at November 6, 2008 06:57 PM
Rahm Emanuel...somebody should have shot his @$$ long ago. Another Mooselimb we have to deal with now.
Posted by: Steve, USMC Proud at November 6, 2008 07:21 PM
