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Republicans are once again ascendant—and for this they can thank Rahm Emanuel. John Batchelor gets the scoop from gleeful conservatives on the trail of Democratic destruction left by Obama’s bullying enforcer.
Suddenly the disgraced and demoralized Republican Congress has an unearned future, thanks to the superhuman clumsiness of a man who has made himself indispensable to the Obama administration and insufferable to the Democratic Congress, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
The GOP always knew that Emanuel was a problem that could not be solved and could only be endured while he served three tempestuous terms in the House. But now the beleaguered Democratic majority is learning painfully that Emanuel’s talents for bullying, whimsical favoritism, cheerful power-grabbing, and self-congratulatory earthiness have transformed the first hundred days of the Obama administration’s seamless accomplishment into a second hundred days of blame and gloom.
First, Emanuel used frontman Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Finance Committee chair, to ditch the health-care public option, while sending President Obama to speak softly at dinner at the home of prickly Senator Charles Grassley (R-Grant Wood). The latest Emanuel co-authored ploy—forcing health-care legislation through in the fall with Democratic-only votes—underlines that the White House has become as deaf, daring, and driven as the fabled Democratic machines of Tammany Hall or Emanuel’s own Cook County, where he was a once and future fundraiser for the Daleys.“We suck,” a blunt Republican partisan reports, “but they suck more right now.”
“I saw one [Democratic] member walk up to him and ask, ‘So how did you make $18 million in an afternoon sitting at a table in Chicago?’ And Rahm just turned and walked away. It gets to him.”
Polling supports this cynical summary. The still lifeless Republicans, who have avoided any credible renovation or even contrition for their decades of swinishness, now enjoy their largest generic lead over the Democrats in years. Trusted touts like Charlie Cook speak of a Democratic loss of at least 20 seats in the House. Republican Party fundraising is up, Republican recruitment is up—even in blue New Hampshire, where a potential loss of Judd Gregg’s U.S. Senate seat is now a likely win with the recruiting of the popular Attorney General Kelly Ayotte—and the GOP’s cheeks have a glow not related to shame.
“It’s Rahm,” a Republican partisan tells me. “The cowardly, brain-dead Republicans are claiming they’ve done something. But it’s Rahm. If Rahm goes, the Dems will not do worse. But it might be hard to undo the damage.”
Like the gifted and overwrought Maximilien de Robespierre once upon a time, Rahm Emanuel has taken control of a revolutionary movement he did not help create nor much contribute to while it was gathering strength under the oppression of the ancien régime of George W. Bush. And just like Robespierre, Emanuel has turned the president’s kitchen cabinet of trusted ex-campaign workers, led by David Axelrod (whose ex-PR firm has enjoyed $12 million in fees so far from fronts controlled by the administration-directed Democratic National Committee), Mark Lippert, and Denis McDonough (a dynamic duo of hatchetmen on the National Security Council), into a Committee for Public Safety that terrorizes Washington’s royals willy-nilly.
The victims are everywhere, and the Republicans know best how brilliantly brutal Emanuel’s methods can be. “Rahm puts people on a string,” a cautious Republican told me. “He did it to Dennis [Hastert, former speaker of the House]. We always knew Rahm had something on him. Maybe it was earmarks. Maybe it was something like classic car-flipping. Dennis never went after Rahm and never allowed us to go after him.”
Emanuel’s methods in the House are now writ large throughout the government. Not one of the House Democrats is suicidal enough to push back in public against what amounts to his extortion and protection racket for each successive piece of partisan legislation—witness the 219 beaten-up votes for cap and trade in the House, or the pummeled Blue Dogs during the health-care brouhaha during recess. One Democratic wag comments that Rahm Emanuel is to the Blue Dogs what Michael Vick was to pit bulls. In the beginning he feeds them steak, then they get torn apart.
However, the Republicans are not as gun-shy—though none is unwise enough to reveal his own name—since they have no financing to have ripped from them; and some Republicans point to the strange quiet of GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor as evidence that he may be a victim of Emanuel’s Black Hand style.
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He will be Obama's Dick Cheney
I think people should stop using that type of analogy. The swine flu was to be Obama's Katrina or was that the stimulus? Afghanistan is now his Vietnam, Rahm is his Cheney? These whatever-you-wanna-call-it comparisons are getting ridiculous. Everyone seems to be looking for failure at every turn.
I don't think so...but he could become the scapegoat if healthcare isn't passed.
Batchelor's all wee weed up.
i also think the analogy of Obama' vietnam and other criticism of OBAMA are grossly exaggerated.
BUT this RAHM has done NOTHING GOOD for Obama.
Can you imagine he did not like GOV DEAN ?? so that was a sign for me that this man will not do anything but destroy Obama.
BUT the REPUBLCANS have NOTHING TO BE PROUD Of and although they Have again started THE BULLYING style ...........they are ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUSTED and even their Polls show it.
SO do NOT DESPAIR but we must WORK HARD to get things well done.
Oh Johnny B Johnny B..if only wishing and saying would make it so....ALL polls other than rasmussen show that the Republicans are still swirlling the bottom of the bowl. Obama is still at 58% favorable and 38% unfavorable....Republicans as a whole are still at only 21% of the people identified as Republicans in the WHOLE country....but hey just keep pushing that meme...shows your readers that you think they are as uneducated as the nut jobs screaming about health care while chanting "Leave my Medicare Alone"! LOL For those of us who see through your propaganda? Your good for a laugh.
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Certainly overwritten.
Sarcasm aside, Rahm's abrasive style, temperament, and FU attitude can only result in the heel-digging and trench-building of his adversaries. He needs to focus more on strong-arming his own party if anything is going to be accomplished. Otherwise he's useless and should be disposed of.
ARE YOU JOKING???
the Republcans have NOTHING to be proud of......to return to POWER
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Pundits inside the beltway always believe that inside the beltway, Machiavellian machinations drive the political machine. If health care passes and the economy rebounds, Rahm will be a genius and Republicans will get kicked a little harder. Those are the issues, not Rahm's personality quirks.
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Rahm is just a 30's Chicago style thug and real Americans have woken up. Only the anarchist and college Pell grant "students" fall for obam's smooth lies.
And those "students" will just be useless even if they graduate, another waste of taxpayer money. No Pell grant if your grade is not at least 3.0
I think I will send Eric Cantor a teddy bear, he needs something to hug.
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vcharis No meds today? What good would a Pell grant do a left wing lunatic like you? Zilch.
What a bunch of BS. Rahm is a DLC-er. He IS a Republican in everything but name. Naturally, the far-Right Republicans hate him, but they also hate other moderate Republicans like Powell and McCain.
I suspect that Rahm and Obama are far more concerned with reaching out to Republican voters than they are in keeping their progressive base. Bill Clinton was the same way.
Now, Obama has his own Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve, and I wouldn't be surprised if he hired Dick Morris to advise him on triangulation.
I have that old sinking feeling that the Democrats have squandered another chance to make real reforms, and they will not get another one for a generation. That's too bad. It will be very bad for the country, which has become very corrupt and dysfunctional.
Hey, stop the hand-wringing! Stop with the sinking feeling already. Democrats are standing up, being vocal and not allowing themselves to be drowned out by the angry, noisy minority right-wing. This is not your mamma's Democratic party and we are not rolling over.
Another right winger trying to sell this story? Nice.
Neverlate that is ridicoulus and so is this article so stupid I stoped half way, but in any case they should have let Howard Dean have a seat in the cabinet, even if it meant no Rahm.
Neverlate, that is ridiculuos and so is this article I stoped half way it is so stupid, but in any case Howard Dean would have made a much better White house chief of staff.
I like Rahm - a passionate man - I understand where he comes from - I'm opposed to his policies in general, but I can respect him nevertheless. WIsh some RINOs had guts.
You respect Rahm... for his, uh...PASSION?! Well, in the history of humankind there exists a whole list of people whose unrelenting "passion" almost destroyed the world.
Whose running the "shop" anyway? I sure as hell didn't vote for Rahm Emanuel to be President! As for Howard Dean, HE should be President. Again and again the Democrats blow it.
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He is decisive...He is a motherfucking genius...But decisive
I've never seen so much space taken up to say absolutely nothing.
...and Mr. Dick (Cheney) is STILL trying to control things from the sidelines. Obama's albatross will not be any person in his cabinet...it will be his inability to stand up to the bully-Republicans on issues that hit home, like healthcare, a two-front trillion dollar war, a largely criminal banking system, global climate change and energy alternatives. Sometimes toes need a-steppin' on to get things done and Rahm seems well-suited for this task. Republicans don't seem to mind such in-your-face aggression when it comes from their side...maybe it's time the Dems grew a couple...
More overwritten, specious blather from Batchelor.
Exactly Correct, Offenbach!
You nailed it! What a political hack-job!
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quite right...batchelor is a second string talk radio hack..he spent a bunch of time obsessing about bill ayers last fall....crackpotterry, wingnuttery, etc
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More overwritten, specious blather from Batchelor.
When Batchelor says "a few dozen months work," does that mean "a few years?" I've never seen anyone use "dozen months" to refer to a year, but the math is indisputable. Seems like the upshot of the article is that Emanuel gets the President's agenda done, but it's not pretty. Hope he can deliver health care.
o.k., i'm confused [again].
we've been hearing lately, vis-a-vis health care reform, that president obama is too hands-off in promoting his agenda;
he lets congress carry the ball while he stands on the sidelines.
now, this story seems to be saying just the opposite:
rahm emanuel, obama's alter ego, is aggressively managing & controlling congress, incl. even some republicans (albeit behind-the-scenes). and, to a degree that is actually destructive of the president's initiatives!
which is it?
be prepared to be confused for the 4-8 years. Depending on who you talk to, Obama is too weak
He's a bully
He's doing too much
He's doing too little
He's Carter
He's Hitler
He's a genius
He's naive
He's a radical hard left Liberal
He's a corporate centrist whore
He doesn't know what he's doing
He's conspiring with big business to sell out the American people
And on and on and on and on.......................
Well said!
Obama haters are SOOOOOO contradicting themselves every second!
Howabout, he and his staff are lacking executive leadership....and it's showing?
I cant say it better.
Obama's haters are so conflicted
Johnstafford and allonfla wrote what I was going to write so I will just add a comment on one of Bachelor's allegations. If Emanual were interfering with diplomacy like a bull in a china shop, would we not have heard from the Secretary of State? Love her or hate her, Sec. Clinton is not the sort of person to take infringement on her authority lying down. Nor is Obama the kind of person to undercut her.
Bachelor can find Senators and Congressmen willing to criticize Emanual off the record? My word, what a surprise!
I don't hate him at all. I'm disappointed in him, since I think he had the potential to be a truly great president like FDR, but I think he is squandering that chance and will settle for being another Bill Clinton.
He seems content enough to be a very timid, moderate reformer who ignores his own supporters and defers a great deal to the Republicans. It doesn't help him much, either, but he keeps doing it.
I think the Democrats have squandered another chance to make some real reforms, and are not going to get another one for decades. This is the fault of DLC-ers like Rahmn, Geithner and the rest.
McHugh, the guy has been in office for 7 months. You're disappointed that he's not FDR? FDR wasn't even FDR after 7 months. Please.
vchair or whatecer it is only need open it's mouth, and walla, left wing lunatic comes out.
Oh please. I mean seriously. Republicans are whining now that they're being bullied? The same people who disgracefully used 9/11 as an excuse to shove their agenda down our throats?
At least Batchelor admits that "The still lifeless Republicans ... have avoided any credible renovation or even contrition for their decades of swinishness"; thus this delusion of ascendency is based solely on the cluelessness of the idiots who support them.
Nope, he's bullying the democrats....the Republicans don't need to give him the time of day.
Wow, the arrogance of that remark is mind-boggling.
You are right . The dems can read, which is good, they do not see the polls showing Obama dropping like a rock.
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yeah, okay. i think not. if the right is ascending, they have the media to thank. the media has coddled them, pushed every lie they could come up with and given airtime to some of its most disgraced members.
Robespierre or Rasputin?
Robspierre, or Cardinal Richilieu (sp?), I think.
I say that because Rasputin had way more flair and showmanship, so I wouldn't really compare him to Rahm.
was referring to power behind the throne, not flair
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Harry Hopkins...he was ill most of the time ,but he could punch way above his weight and crush FDR's opponents like bugs...and that's a good thing.
If you want perfect characters in politics and history,consult Tom Clancy.
Batchelor is a winger. What he writes should be understood as a right-wing wish list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batchelor
To understand the fetid swamp engulfing the country and the rest of the world check out David Rockefeller. Although to the manor born and with a silver spoon in his mouth he to is a product of American education. Indoctrinated to become to become leftist in his thinking enough to write a post graduate thesis on Fabian Socialism. Selected to become a member of the Council on Foreign Relations the Rockefeller Foundation even donated the land on which the United Nations stands in Manhattan. The idea of world government is a pet doctrine of the wealthy enslavers who understand that the concept of freedom and individual rights embraced by the true revolutionary thinkers of world history - those who wrote and signed the American Declaration of Independence - had to be undermined for the new slave masters to succeed in creating their new American and world plantation.
Obviously, North49 is not a product of American education: It's "He too," North, with two o's. I guess if you can spell, you must have your sites set on world domination.
"the true revolutionary thinkers of world history - those who wrote and signed the American Declaration of Independence - had to be undermined for the new slave masters to succeed in creating their new American and world plantation."
I'm pretty sure (in fact, positive) that a great number of people who signed the declaration of independence, these true supports of real freedom and individual rights, were themselves slave masters and plantation owners. Seriously, can you write more than one paragraph without contradicting yourself?
Not to diminish the founding fathers or anything, but they weren't the ones that came up with the idea of democracy and individual rights. They pretty much just took the ideas of John Locke and other European philosophers and applied them.
They can definitely be credited with being the first ones to successfully put these ideas into the context of a working government.
Yeah speakingout, If you were a white land owner.
haha tru dat to the slave owner and white land owner comments.
WHY IS HYPOCRISY SO RAMPANT THROUGHOUT HUMANITY!?
Republicans are ascendent? You wish!! All the latest poll information shows the Republican brand continuing to decline. On health care the polling indicates a strong DISapproval of how the party is handling this issue. Here in outside the beltway Virginia there are loads of Republicans and none that I know plan on returning to the party. Not for Senator or Representative or President. They may vote in a Republican governor but only because the Dem so far is not running a great campaign. They are most upset with the likes of Palin, Newt, and Fox whackadoodles being the face of the party. The birthers, deathers and the calling out of the white militias particularly bother them. Senator Grassly's foolish lying didn't help. They are searching and ripe for the pluck'en by centrist candidates or by a third party. I guess this is just another one of those BEAST opinion pieces designed to create controversy and generate page views. Watch it BEASTIES less you become too tabloidy. I am already beginning to wander away and I was a loyal follower in the beginning.
You're right; this site's MO is becoming tiresome: hire some hacks to toss out some half-baked "observation" designed to incite faux controversy, and feed the trolls. It might be better if they had a real discussion forum like Plastic.com, but as it stands, it's all hit and run, with no real depth.
Boring unless trolling devoid of in depth discussion is your thing.
if anybody thinks the republicans are ascendant, check out this chart on party id patterns from pollster: http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/party-id.php
the numbers you are looking at are for "all adults". If you look at the "registered and likley voters only" the picture is much different.
@ johnny aces: while it's true that the second group has more republicans that the first, the number of "registered and likely voters only" identifying as republican is basically unchanged over the last year.
Yeah, my loyalty is fading too, DB. Whatever happened to exposing the truth rather than making it up? Batchelor wrote this piece without checking out his hunches...er, fantasies.
Republicans ascedent again ? LOL !! From what primortal ooze ?? LOL !! If I read that 100 times in a row will I start to believe it ?? LMAO !!
Oh, John, your politics are showing....Nothing would make you happier than to see the Democrats go after Rahm so you write an article that suggests that the Dems are in freefall and the blame lays squarely on the shoulders of Rahm Emanuel. Come on.
Rham is going to bring down Obama and make the lying dog Republicans ascend? I think not.
What a bunch of gobbollyguck, almost indecipherable!
Where does Mr.Batchelor get his information?
From a Sarah Palin blog.
Even though I'm a schlub out here in Kansas, allow me to reinvent the words of Bill Hickey to Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor as advice to the President about Rahm.
"He gotta go, Barack."
I've been saying this ever since the climate change bill passed. Just as guys like Blount and Holder are bad for the Republicans, Rahm is very bad for Democrats. He's poorly counseled the president into screwing up health care reform to the point he looks beyond cold, but toothless.
This ineffectiveness has pretty much dithered what good will was created by the election. Where the hell are all those folks screaming "Yes we can" these days, eh? They're out being young and well and not giving a rat's ass about health care, which is what they're going to need 50 years from now. How to get them excited?
About Afghanistan and the Middle East? Wither those hot spots? All the snark and cursing isn't going to fix those problems.
These are serious times. The president and the GOP, too, for that matter, needs to stop campaigning and start governing, start leading the nation.
The place for politics may be MSNBC, but the time for it isn't now, when we're in one big stinkpile trying to find the pony inside. The time is now for good governance, not the games that Rahm plays and the GOP plays back.
NONSENSE!
Well .. WJ Clinton did call him a thug !!
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Real major league thugs don't wear bling my friend, they wear three piece Brookes Brothers suits.
Who cares what they wear? You can take the Negro out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the Negro.
You know what i be sayin?
"We suck, but they suck more!" I suppose that's better than the last campaign slogan - "We peed on the carpet, vote for us again!"
How convenient Emanuel is turning out to be - pit bull, bad cop, mob enforcer, lightning rod and scapegoat. He's worth every penny of those 18 million dollars.
Uh, wouldn't that be, "We wee-wee'd up the carpet" ????
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I have a great picture of a dog with Cheney's head doing that dog ass wipe walk across the carpet and the caption reads, "Fuck em' if they can't take a joke".
Everytime I hear or read some self-righteous Republican bullshit all I need to do is gander over at that picture and imagine that that carpet is the United States of America. It puts it all in perspective.
So, if not for Rahm, the GOP would be lock-step with the President on health care? Don't make me laugh.
this is an interesting article, but it's bad journalism. if you quote a source, a "republican partisan" is neither a good source of information on dem inside information, nor particularly descriptive. i mean, my 90 y.o. grandpa could be called a republican partisan.
"pummeled Blue Dogs"..... they are still holding the democratic party hostage so not sure how pummeled they are?
One big difference is that Maximilien de Robespierre eventually faced justice, Rahm and Obama, like Cheney and Bush, never will.
So he is an SOB but he is our SOB
He is Obamas bad cop allowing Obama to appear above the fray
He is doing for Obama what DeLay did for Bush
Party cohesion
Congress's main concern especially the House is its reelection
every 2 years
They wont make the hard votes if it costs them reelection/campaign $ from special interests
The democrats big mistake is flailing away at republicans. IThey could agree 100% when democrats call republicans names or failures or demonize individuals and still lose because independents don't think that's them. And it's not!
Obama got the independent vote by acting like a moderate. He's only going to get their support for his agenda by being a moderate. It's that simple. If he was just manipulating them to get their vote so he could pass a liberal agenda, he'll lose them.
He has lost the moderates, Libertarians, and only the illegals he wants to give amnesty to can save him. That is why he wants amnsesty and free healthcare for illegals.
LOL...BullMoose?...More like BullS**t Put this one right up there with Death Panels...thanks, I'll be laughing about this one all night
Hey fedup, I already named him BullShit.
You lefties being ignorant is great. When the house and senate go back to adult Republican's, i will laugh each and every day at you children.
Well the Town Hall train stops here in Vegas today,8/31/09.
Just hope they keep speading the word about Obamacare, and it's reducing Medicare to give illegals more freebies.
Just can't wait untill next year's elections, when the Congress goes back to the Republicans, 1994 all over again.
Cryeyeyeyey old baby,,cryeyeyey old baby.bye bye old bye Obamacare.
I would agree with you degeezee that his quoted source is beyond suspect, but I would go further to say that this isn't journalism at all. Its simply opinion, and thats fine, but Batchelor's intent seems to be to create an idea of Rahm that doesnt exist because Cons are afraid of him. The fact that he was protected by Cons in congress while he was there confuses blogger Con clowns like Batchelor, they hate the idea of a strong arm political strategist on the Dems side that now is at a high level of power. Batchelor's intent with this article is an attempt to curb that power, albeit with a poorly written and factually suspect piece. Lets not let the tyranny of the stupid prevent progress.
lol you need to check your history a little closer bully politics gets you short term gains only (your latest hero LBJ for example) Since this healthcare reform doesn't even start to kick in until 2013, you might want to keep a little power to make sure the other side doesn't have a chance to gut it before anyone becomes dependent on it. If you use that nuclear option to pass it, the other side will have a green light to use it to gut it.
thinkagain hit the nail on the head. Obama is proving to be what most people with brains and not emotion knew. Obama is a smooth talking empty suit, and communtiy organizers like ACORN are being indicted hee in Nevada.
They were forcing their payed staff that registered voters to a quota, with threats if they missed them. Read the Las Vegas Review Journal.
BullMoose: I think it more likely that ThinkAgain hit the nail WITH his head.
It would certainly explain some of his comments.
AlanD2 Obama is the smooth talikng inwxperienced politcal Chicago hack, and his Rev. Wright wiggle was the best cutting rug ever.
I used to think he was OK, untill i saw all you Tina Brown worshippers and your whining spineless decisons on what can be posted and what can not.
This place seemed at first better than the nuts at Daily Kos, but really you are the same.
This "blog" is nothing but a click for the apple polishers of the so called gatekeepers, who can't recognize satirical post when they see them, but allow their cronies to post nigger and other perjoratives. I am flagging those post for 3 days now, and not one has been removed, yet my post to Patricia Williams article was the first post, purely satirical,making fun of the mustached Obama guy. But the dim bulbs here whined and removed it, them Max Blumenthal stole my idea,which my explanation shows i pre- dated his "blockbusting" article.
So this place is run by the same crowd you claim you do not approve of.
Hey BullMoose, Ever meet MattBenzor. Just like you Coo-Coo, Coo-Coo.
Last year, when Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency of this country the Republicans, and many other species of person, soiled their pants and to this day they are still wallowing in their excrement. Sticky, smelly and very uncomfortable.
This is why they are so miserable and against anything and everything that is happening in this country.
It is not the health care system, it is not the economy, it is nothing but their terrified condition as the to profound change in this country.
Before Barack Obma even took over George Bushs position these were the people who immediately declared it their fervent hope that the new presidency fail, the ones who cheered when that idiot Texas Governor raised the specter of secession, the ones who waste their time on silly posters and pictures of watermelons.
When you really stop to think about all this you realize just how in pain these people are. These poor individuals, when the election happened last fall, not only lost their minds but any pretense of enlightenment.
So, every day, day after day, they flounder in their soiled pants. squeeking here, squeeking there. Loading their guns, unloading their guns, screaming about "death panels" Silly fools, screaming each day about "socialism" never ever realizing that our schools, our libraries, our fire departments, our police departments are all "socialized".
In the meantime these fools abstain froim any moral responsibility in the eternal debate.
One never knows whether they should laugh or cry. I guess I could cry because these bastards have ceased to be funny.
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What is the DIFFERENCE between Rahm and the Republicans?
Not that much. Rahm is a DLC-er--a moderate Republican in everything but name. Naturally, the far Right-wing Republicans hate him, but they also hate Powell, Clinton and even McCain.
Rahm is telling Obama to be like Bill Clinton, and fill the administration with DLC types. Obama's "progressive" base has already abandoned him, and vice versa. This is probably what they planned all along, once the election was over.
I have to admit, Obama fooled us completely. He was the only politician in my adult life who fooled me, since I assume most of them are liars and crooks, but Obama's false advertising was brilliant.
Oh spare me, spoken like a true spoiled brat...nice try at subterfuge but it didn't work...
No subterfuge. I was a big Obama supporter once, but then I started to see the DLC and Wall Street types take over, and it no longer felt like "our" administration. I don't feel much enthusiasm for it any more like I did at first. It seems more like the third Clinton term than a really progressive government.
mcmchugh99: Well, you can always switch Wall Street for C Street.
Obama never pretended to be that liberal. He ran as a moderate, and he is governing as a moderate.
Obama's governing as a Republican. Take a look at his policies. Duh.
The Democratic party's erectile disfunction has nothing to do with the "big mean Jew" in the White House. It has to do with the fact that they're a bunch of p*ssies who can't stand up to flabby,aging, hypocritical Republicans and their clearly shrinking base.
(Seriously, Dems...wtf? It took about one week to watch Glenn Beck get his sack stapled to a desk chair. What is your major malfunction? Grow some balls or get out.)
Right wing America is making a lot of noise. Big frikken deal. Count the actual number of screaming idiots on your TV screen, then subtract that from the US population. Factor in the people who actually have a life, don't need a gun to get aroused and are not racist...and the GOP can essentially can go f*ck itself.
Yes I used the P-word and the F-word. I pray on Fridays. Want to blame me for something too? It's not Rahm Emmanuel, you crybabies. It's a bunch of chickensh*t politicians who can be replaced if they won't do the job.
Thank you.
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