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Rahm Emanuel: America's Prime Minister

Rahm Emanuel’s expected departure is more than just your standard White House shakeup: it costs Obama the man with the political grit and muscle to make his dreams come true.

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Rahm Emanuel has been the president's policy whip, his enforcer-in-chief, the way James Baker was for George H. W. Bush. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo)

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