Jed Babbin has today’s top story at Human Events. It seems the Emanuel Death Watch is continuing.
White House chiefs of staff come and go, arriving with fanfare and departing — usually — in celebration or silence. Only one exception comes to mind. When Don Regan swapped jobs with Ronald Reagan chief of staff James Baker there began an epic battle with the president’s wife which — to no one’s surprise but Don Regan’s — he lost.
Hamilton Jordan played Sancho Panza to Jimmy Carter’s Don Quixote. H.R. Haldeman was Cardinal Richelieu to Richard Nixon’s Louis XIII. But Rahm Emanuel, who has that lean and hungry look, seems to be auditioning for the part of Cassius to Obama’s Caesar.
Rahm Emanuel, famous for declaiming that a crisis should never be allowed to go to waste, is now engaged in an epic battle not only with President Obama’s closest advisers but with the president himself.
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It couldn't happen
Warrior (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:02AM EST (link)to a nicer guy. [snark now off]
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
You took the words right out of my mouth...(NT)
Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:03AM EST (link)Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…..
You took the words right out of my mouth...(NT)
Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:03AM EST (link)Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…..
Go ahead, it's worth saying twice
JoeG Monday, March 8th at 12:07PM EST (link)Hey I know ...
bk (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:05AM EST (link)He could resign and the Illinois Dems could pull a “Lautenberg/Mondale” switcheroo and have him replace Alexi G to run for the “Obama seat”.
"Rahm-bo" likes knifes, huh?
conservos (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:21AM EST (link)From that article:
“In Naftali Bendavid’s book, The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution, he recounts how Emanuel, at a dinner celebrating Bill Clinton’s election, talked about a list of pols who had “f—ed us,” taking a knife and shouting “dead” after naming each name. ”
Scary guy.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/126490/saturday-night-live-rahm-emanuel
One party, one vote.
Work from within.
So Rahm was channelling Bluto 2:30 into this clip?
bk (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:30AM EST (link)!! Excellent, bk. /nt
conservos (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:53AM EST (link)One party, one vote.
Work from within.
This is what piranhas do
Tbone (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:32AM EST (link)when nothing has fallen into the river for a while.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Freakin' Awesome 2nd Paragraph.
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:34AM EST (link)If I ever grow up, I hope to write as well as Jed Babbin. Rahm as Cassius. Awesome. Especially if Octavious is out there just waiting to stuff his obnoxious can in the hurt locker.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
I called it the other day when you had the Milbank piece
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 10:56AM EST (link)up; Rahmbo is out for the Boss and his close advisors. The old “let me show you how much it hurts to not do things my way” game is a dangerous business. You do it if you think the Boss or those around you don’t have the guts to take you on, but if somebody grows a pair, you’re dead. ‘Course, I’ve never done anything like this, but I’ve heard stories.
In Vino Veritas
Regardless of my total and complete disdain for Barack I
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 11:03AM EST (link)This would legitimately fall under the category of fireable. Legetimately fireable, not just politically fireable.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
Yeah, but to fire him, you'd have to admit that it happened.
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 11:17AM EST (link)Somebody who’ll do this sorta stuff ain’t the kind of person who’ll just say they’ve decided to spend more time with their family and go on; he’ll play kiss and tell big time. Then you have to answer it all because the media will love it; no matter how much they love Comrade Obama, they love red meat and ratings more.
I got in a pitched battle with my commissioner during a Democrat administration. He blatantly told us that to get his appointment he’d promised the unions to fire a couple of us. Now this was long before I was a political appointee and didn’t even involve myself in politics just because of this sort of stuff. Anyway, for a year or so, he would do anything but fire me and I’d do anything but quit; his misery was my mission until I could line something up- not an easy thing when what you do is only done by government and you’re on the outs with the government. Finally, got some work with the Republican controlled Legislature, told him to shove it, and then officially made his misery my mission; if he and the Administration wanted something, they couldn’t have it – even if we thought it was a good idea.
In Vino Veritas
Shucks. I had Geithner in the scapegoat pool
Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 4:02PM EST (link)I figured he would get it in the neck, whether he deserved it or not.
In retrospect, Rahm is the smart play. At least Obama can now say the failure of his entire agenda (not just the economy) was Rahm’s mismanagement and not the way he wanted things to run. Sure . Right. I also have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
This is a pure and simple game of political Three Card Monty with our countries voters once again being played as hapless bumpkins.
Obama owns this agenda- all of it. Firing Rahm isn’t going to fool anyone at this point.
“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson
Rahm Emanuel - typical progressive
indyjohn Monday, March 8th at 11:03AM EST (link)Emanuel and his ilk are all metrosexual, tough-guy wanabees. Politics is the career they have chosen because it allows them to channel their inner Conan the Barbarian without any risk to their manicured nails.
This type of contemporary man was never good at athletics, music, math, or science in school and hated everyone who actually demonstrated innate talent. He would fail at business because he trusts no one and can’t be trusted himself. He harbors an intense inner rage about his own limitations that can only be assuaged by making the lives of others miserable.
Rahm Emanuel’s life and politics are inseparable because it’s the only place were he can behave like a nasty five-year-old and not get his lights punched out (either literally or figuratively).
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
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Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 11:06AM EST (link)>>>…it allows them to channel their inner Conan the Barbarian without any risk to their manicured nails.
The perfect “pushbutton killer” mentality. Wesley Mouch from the Ayn Rand novel.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
Rahmbo the Ballerina!
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 11:48AM EST (link)Don’t know if you’d consider it “athletics”, but Rahmbo was a serious ballet dancer.
Okay, I'll bite... Is this for real? -nt
larueladue (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 12:01PM EST (link)Yes, this is a legit photo of Rahm
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 1:07PM EST (link)in his ballet days.
this explains a lot /nt
conservos (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 12:07PM EST (link)One party, one vote.
Work from within.
Ain't he purdy?
indyjohn Monday, March 8th at 12:12PM EST (link)Am I being intolerant and prejudiced if I notice that Rahm looks SUPERGAY in this photo?
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Just a bit...
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 4:58PM EST (link)I took ballet for a semester… was the only male in the class… but then my two little degrees are in Applied Science (law enforcement emphasis) and Theater…
What really gets me is the article on Drudge about Rahm bullying a Senator in the gym showers! sheeesh…
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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Ballet lessons
indyjohn Tuesday, March 9th at 8:28AM EST (link)OK. I will admit it. I took ballet lessons, too. With my wife. She loved seeing me in tights. I learned too late that a straight man in a ballet class attracts nubile women like flowers attract bees. A guy could wear himself out…
However, I think that Rahm got into ballet because he just loves to express himself through dance. Lord, how I wish he had made a career of that instead.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Moral: Don't keep a rattlesnake as a pet
RedBeard Monday, March 8th at 11:46AM EST (link)Not one iota of sympathy for Obama here. None. Less than none. It was his idiotic decision to keep the pet rattler. Stupid.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
You have to have some "pet rattlers" or
Achance (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 12:10PM EST (link)you get leaked, sabotaged, and thwarted the way GWB was. The closest GWB ever had was Scooter Libby and Carl Rove and the left mau-maued both of them.
Most people who can actually get elected or appointed are the kind of people who flee from conflict or controversy. The smarter ones know this and hire themselves a real SOB as COS to be the enforcer. You just have to make sure you keep the enforcer loyal and I think Rahmbo thinks he’s tougher and more powerful than any of BHO’s inner circle and maybe even BHO himself.
In Vino Veritas
A good, big, loyal dog, yes
RedBeard Monday, March 8th at 12:34PM EST (link)But not a deadly critter that would just as soon kill you as your enemies.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
The Rahmpire Emerges At Sunset
streetwise (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 12:32PM EST (link)a promising sign, I think, although temporarily unpleasant
Hitlers bullies paid a huge price after consolodating power
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, March 8th at 5:00PM EST (link)at least the O keeping Rahm around might be a sign that there is still hope for a free America in the future…
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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