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Richard Wolffe is doing the rounds, promoting his new book Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. Looks like the White House is in “blame Rahm” mode:
“[O]ther senior staffers believed that [former Chief of Staff Rahm] Emanuel’s excess energy was a major part of the problem … In place of the rigid discipline of the presidential campaign, instead of their no-drama style and the strategic focus, ideas ricocheted around the West Wing with each firing of Emanuel’s synapses. ‘It’s all tactics and no strategy,’ said one of Emanuel’s close colleagues. ‘That’s something the president feels very strongly he’s missing. How do I get from here to where I want to go? It’s all tactical and it’s all Rahm. He has no follow-through and no management. Nobody is there to check that what was decided in the seven-thirty meeting actually happens. The problem with Rahm is that, yes, he’s brilliant. But he is purely tactical, and he changes his mind based on a conversation he just had with Paul Begala. There are many times when Axe has to shout him down to drop an idea or a tactic. And his style is unbelievably bad. It’s just too abusive.” (p. 55-6).
Nobody dislikes Rahm more than me. But there are people in life that you never, ever mess with because they can hurt you way more than you can hurt them. Rahm is one of those people for this White House. He was the closest thing to a functioning press shop they had, he knows where the bodies are buried, and he knows how to get his message into the press without leaving fingerprints. He can cause havoc in virtually every major story written, and he’ll have no choice but to do so if the Jarrett/Axelrod/Gibbs/Plouffe dipshit nexus start causing him problems in his mayor’s race.
These guys just have absolutely no judgment. None.
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And the scapegoat parade marches on. Whatever happened to “The buck stops here”?
Thank you, M’am
and I concur, it will be Bambi vs Godzilla if they trot out any of their usual mad hamfisted skillz
And frankly Obama and everyone in the WH knew long ago what Rahm Emanuel was all about — his tactical management style; his abrasive, rude, arrogant personality that makes enemies out of those he works with.
Their trying to pass the buck to Rahm for the very characteristics that he’s been caricatured for his entire career, is as if to suggest they just found out. That he was somehow a mis-hire. Bullshit!
The people Obama has surprisingly surrounded himself with to play huge roles within his administration says everything about Obama himself. Summers, Geithner, Gates, Emanuel, Hillary, etc. were all hired precisely because of who they are.
I think a large portion of failure for the Obama administration must be laid at Rahm’s feet. That said, the messaging portion isn’t and wasn’t him. And so we get to watch the White House tripping over their own feet continue. (Not that that isn’t hard to avoid with a President whose only principle is that he is coming out of this alive, rich, and with all the right new friends.)
And yeah, you don’t throw a hatchet at Rahm until you know you have your back to the wall and him down and busy street fighting with some one else for his own survival if you want to survive yourself. If he isn’t busy he will just consider slicing and dicing you to be a fun way to clean his knife.
Thanks Jane. They all deserve each other so let the circular firing squad commence. Meanwhile, lets not get distracted by that new shiny object.
Kucinich ’12.
This is a good thread, Jane.
Rats in a pissing contest, par excellence! :o)
That Axelrod made the announcement that he’s leaving in the spring to run Obama’s “re-election” campaign (O, frabjous day!) is the Big O. making an incremental admission that he has been fucking the dog for the past 22 months, and now needs to do some kind of token penance.
It’s kind of like first navigator Ax is being choppered off the deck of the Titanic as she kicks up a 30 degree angle, so he can go take over another ship.
Last time I checked, Rahm wasn’t sitting in the Prez’s chair, making the final check-off on all the things that our corporate lords wanted him to do and not do.
Play with G’ddamn F’ing fire and you will get burned. They never should have invited fire into the administration. Hiring Rahm was the first problem. (Actually second, after the FISA stupidity)
If everyone is at fault, then no one is at fault. Funny how the world works.
Heh. They *do* deserve each other. Birds of a feather and all that.
“…dipshit nexus…”
Such an elegant turn of phrase that is so very descriptive of this WH
(unfortunately, it also seems to be part of the standard job requirement for most any WH as far as that goes)
I should add, with Rahm safely off the sinking ship, and apparently in good shape for a run as Chicago mayor, he just might be thinking:
“These guys can piss and moan all the way to the bottom of the
North Atlantic and it won’t hurt me. The last thing I need to do is get involved in an intra-party pissfight with advisers to a president who’s standing in water up to his nose, wearing a chiquita banana hat with pulsating day-glo letters spelling out
“LOSER!”. So long, suckers!”
The more I think of it, the more I believe that all Rahm wants from the Obama White House, is distance.
Wrestling with Axelrod & co. would be like mixing it up with tar-babies. 6 months to a year from now, he’ll be like: “What preznint are you guys talking about?”
Emmanuel was the one who careened the Clinton White House onto the shoals of NAFTA and delivered Congress to Gingrich’s GOP and he’s completely reprised the role for Obama with the Health Insurers and Pharma Corporate Welfare Act of 2010.
Just got back from a trip to India where I needed malaria prophylaxis. Blue Cross Anthem would not cover it, so I paid out of pocket at Walgreens, $210. I tried to contact the pharmacy at Frankfurt airport to buy it en route but got no email reply. On the flight back, I stopped by the pharmacy to see what the deal was, and the price ended up being €60.
The Dems did not get clobbered because the country shifted to the right. They lost because abused voters declined to further enable their abusers, even though the liberals insisted that we stay with them, that they are really going to change this time.
And that was their intent. Summers. Geithner. Emmanuel. Gates. Petraeus. We’ve got to boycott the Democrats and grind the blue cities to a halt so that we can cut off the flow of profits that keeps this financial dictatorship running as electoral options have been neutralized.
-marc
What Obama suddenly realizes with Rahm’s departure is he no longer has the good cop/bad cop dance routine the two of them had going on all along.
Obama’s disenchanted supporters could always just blame the evil Rahm Emanuel for all of Obama’s betrayals. Rahm was a like a magnet, absorbing all the liberal rage, as people wanted to give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
So now Axelrod and others are still trying to deflect the Left’s anger away from the President and towards Rahm — over in Chicago. Hah! Good luck!
rahm is also a survivor don’t forget, there might be some falling on the sword stuff going on here
if someone can play chess it’s probably rahm so this might be orchestrated
Who cares what happens to that gang of ass holes?
The people Obama has surprisingly surrounded himself with… Summers, Geithner, Gates, Emanuel, Hillary, etc.
It’s unlikely he had much to do with those appointments. They were all predetermined as the condition for his accepting campaign support from the banksters and Wall St.
Marc:
“…so I paid out of pocket at Walgreens. $210 dollars.”
That’s OK.
The main thing is that Barack Obama told Harry Reid to kick Byron Dorgan in the balls on behalf of Pfizer and Lilly, etc., for talking about bringing in cheap foreign drugs…which was done, instanter.
they still have Bowles/Simpson and now they have the Obstructionist GOP House™ as bad cops
the Clinton Playbook on steroids
The cossacks work for the czar. If Rahm was the issue, that doesn’t say much that’s good about Obama’s judgment. Me? I don’t think Rahm was the issue. Rahm wasn’t president. He worked for the president. Just like cossacks work for the czar.
I don’t much like Rahm either. Never have. But it is amazing to see the bus tracks across his back. How clueless is this admin? Do they take responsibility for nothing? Is everything someone else’s fault? And why Rahm? I thought the problem was supposed to be all us DFH’s.
Rahm is a bully, he will not back away from a pissing match.
Just not in his nature.
I don’t disagree with anything he said about Rahm in that passage, except the premise that it’s all on him. He may have been a big wheel but in the end, he was just one cog in a machines whose gears stripped very early on trying to please people who were never going to be pleased with them.
Oh and the “he’s brilliant” part? Only if by brilliant you mean trying the same discredited things over and over and expecting a different result. If that’s what brilliant means now, then yes, he’s a savant.
Spot on, Callup.
With Rahm’s leaving, Obama’s standing up underneath the White House portico with his “centrist” ass hanging out for all the world to see.
What’s disgusting is the number of democratic fantasists who are still pimping the nonsense about the big, bad, republicans stealing poor, courageous, Obama’s political mojo.
No one could have anticipated that Rahm would have a disruptive effect on policy.
As for threatening his mayoral aspirations, from where I sit (just south of Union Station at the moment), I don’t see anything written about his performance as Chief of Staff helping or hindering his chances. Pure Chicago Machine politics at work here. There is no real opposition. Perceived influence in Washington is a minor factor.
Margaret’s right; taking advantage of a situation full of hope and enthusiasm and of the people who created it, to squander a great opportunity…and to sustain the status quo with a bunch of cynical, machiavellian, shit, isn’t “savvy”; it’s stupid, corrupt and evil, to the max.
Which is why we got our asses handed to us two weeks ago.
Obama’s disenchanted supporters could always just blame the evil Rahm Emanuel for all of Obama’s betrayals.
Yeah, except most of us realized that rahm serves at Obama’s pleasure so no matter what his actions or power, he is complicit at best. That kind of thing might work on conservatives but not on (many) left leaning people. Which explains why the people who surround Obama thought it would work.
Mack; I think Emanuel’s clear willingness to cut his own mother up for catfood, if it will further his political ambitions, is going to be a plus in Chicago.
Sorry, Windy City. :o)
David Dayen has a fresh cross-post available: Setting Sights Low: Lame Duck Session Not Expected to Generate Much Legislation
The ball is in Rham’s court. It should be entertaining to see what Rham lobs back.
There is no reason to think that we may at any point get a paper thin wafer of progressive policy satisfaction from Congress and Obama – ever.
I will be pleased to see a fine pissing contest develop betwixt these evil lying bastards.
It’s all we can hope for.
Exactly, and Rahm is just another member of the gang of assholes. Nothing more. Nothing less. He’s just creepier is all.
Hopefully, crowds will gather to boo him when he campaigns.
rahm did as he was told. first they bashed the liberals, now they’re bashing rahm since they had to throw him under the bus to appease the veal pen
just more triangulation bull
“No one could have anticipated that Rahm would have a disruptive effect on policy.”
How do you figure that? I personally had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when he was appointed CoS and I distinctly remembering people here, at Eschaton and even Daily going going “Oh fuck” when that news broke. Anybody who paid the least mount of attention to the Dean-Emanuel relationship had to know he was going to not only be disruptive but to excel at it.
Hack, I’m looking forward to the reality chickens landing on this White House every bit as much as I was when they were coming back to it when Bush was in it. After the hopes and enthusiasm we had, t’ll be a bitter pill, but it’s better than continuing to gnosh on “centrist” turds and call them caviar.
“Gang of Assholes”
I hope Doris Goodwin will adopt this title for her book, to contrast with “Team of Rivals.”
The advisers are deeply concerned about winning back political independents, who supported Obama two years ago by an eight-point margin but backed Republicans for the House this year by 19 points. To do so, they think he must forge partnerships with Republicans on key issues and make noticeable progress on his oft-repeated campaign pledge to change the ways of Washington.
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Forge partnerships with Republicans. As if the last two years never happened.
Jane is right. These guys have absolutely no judgment. None.
I think, Margaret, that that was snark.
And here’s Petraeus, calling out Karzai for his complaining about the number of Afghan civilians that we’re killing:
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/14/petraeus-karzais-criticism-undermining-war/
Of course, Karzai is walking a fine-line as our resident sock-puppet, but it’s got to hurt a little, which is why Petraeus is saying “ouch!”
A big spinning plate, slowing, slowing, slowing…
Link didn’t paste. Quote from Kornblut article in WashPo.
If so, then oops! :)
Mom: You’re wicked lady. :o)
One pulitizer for Ms. Goodwin, comin’ up! :o)
See that? It’s comedy gold. Tack harder right! More. More. Change the ways of Washington! Cut to the right! Tax Cuts! All that Lefty Socialism was just too much!
When Rahm came in with Obama, I was worried that Fitz would nail him with Blago.
A few months later, I was worried that Fitz WOULDN’T nail him.
Jane,
I don’t agree. I think the person quoted (my money is on Plouffe) is on to something. It in no way lets Obama off the hook. Almost certainly Rahm is a tactitioner. It’s how the Clinton presidency survived, and probably how he made is 15 or so million during his brief sejourn with the financial industry. But Obama brought him precisely because he was supposedly good at tactics.
The problem as you have pointed out goes deeper. Obama is a congenital compromiser. Where he got that model of American government from watching it function since the late 1980s is beyond me, but he seems to be suffering from extreme Broderitist. No amount of strategic thinking can get you anywhere if your strategy consists in compromising with people who would prefer to see you strung up on a lamp pole. That’s what’s wrong. The tactical side simply reinforced the initial bias.
I’m totally gob-smacked and dumbfounded as I was when Obama brought all the gang that couldn’t think straight including that little nasty fellow, you know the ballet dancer with teeth.
Life is wonderful, you can’t make this shit up including all the assholes and demons Obama has populated his inner circle with. Yea, prepositions and all, I know.
Looks like rinse and repeat but it may be another stealthy 3-D chess move.
This president is bringing world-class meaning to the old hack “circling the drain!” Sad.
Dipshit nexus. Love the phrase; you have such a talent for words, but shouldn’t it be the Obama/Jarrett/Axelrod/Gibbs/Plouffe dipshit nexus.
The thing is that his supporters freaked out when anyone tried to suggest that anything — much less Rahm — was less than perfect at the Obama White House.
And the whole “Don’t call Dems weak or criticize them in any meaningful way because it just helps Republicans” meme is alive and well at the Orangerie.
Rahm Emmanuel: the left’s Karl Rove.
You could keep adding names….
Rahm Emmanuel: the left’s
Karl Rovedouchebag fascist.Fixed it for you.
“Rahm is a bully…”
No doubt. But he’s a bully who was smart enough to get off the ship just before it hit the iceberg, and now he’s in great shape to become Mayor of one of America’s largest cities.
Of course, by the time he bailed, you didn’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that the ship was going to get hammered.
I think he’ll also be smart enough to know that slinging shit back and forth with the politician (or his top-enders…) who just became the poster boy for a failed president, is not going to help him.
But I agree with Jane; it was the act of desperate boneheads to try to shift the blame for Obama and the dems’ implosion, to Emanuel. One more piece of evidence for the voters of how badly these unprincipled losers are panicking. That’s all it will accomplish.
Actually, comparing Rahm to Rove is insulting….
To Rove.
Rove won a few election cycles. Rahm’s electoral instincts are shit, as evidenced by the 1994 and 2010 election cycles. The “screw the base” strategy has never worked, yet Rahm keeps going back to it.
I might buy the argument that Rahm is to blame for the fractious nature of the White House if I got the sense that business was being done differently now. But it’s not. That they’re vacillating between blaming others and complete lassitude suggests that nothing’s changed. The style that dominates is still: no confrontation, Clinton-ian re-framing. In other words, aching uselessness. I still think Obama wins in ’12, but for the first time lately, I’ve been having my doubts.
Rahm should be blamed for a lot, but ultimately, all the decisions had to be blessed by the President. Rahm should never have been hired in the first place. The whole of Washington knew he was a self serving POS, except maybe the President, who can be startlingly naive about things.
Anyone who read “The Plan,” a book written by Rahm Emanuel and the DLC’s Bruce Reed, was on notice that Emanuel was no friend of progressive Democrats. Readers of that book were also put on notice that he considered civil liberties and women’s reproductive freedom vanity issues not worth fighting for.
It’s a simple pivot for Rahmbo to cast these statements as more evidence that he’s a take-charge, tough sonofabitch and then to spin that to his advantage. Voters see “decisive”; it’s too much to expect them to digest “nonstrategic.”
He may feel like retaliating out of personal vindictiveness, but not because a glove came anywhere near being laid on him.
He also screwed the pooch in ’06 by showering money on conservadems like Tammy Duckworth while ignoring progressive challengers in the Northeast and Midwest. After he wrote off the entire state of Michigan, where I live, I vowed never to give a dime to the DCCC as long as I live.
It’s real handy to forget that Obama can hire and fire at will when the Obamabots are trying to shift responsibility for 2 years of clutchbutt policies away from the MMFIC.
“But he’s a bully who was smart enough to get off the ship just before it hit the iceberg, and now he’s in great shape to become Mayor of one of America’s largest cities. ”
I’d like to see one or more diaries here about the situation in Chicago. I’ve seen such a range of predictions, from “no way” to “sure thing.”
And dammit, bring back our various edit, blockquote and other functions!!!! This “new deal” is crap without them. BTW, I hate nested comments. End of public service message.
You mean drug re-importation, right?
You do understand that “cheap foreign drugs” is a gross mischaracterization, right?
Of course you do.
“… the Jarrett/Axelrod/Gibbs/Plouffe dipshit nexus …”
LOL. Nice.
If all meds were manufactured in the US, and US residents were allowed to purchase those meds abroad for a lower price, then we’d be talking about reimportation.
But pharma is globalized, some are manufactured and/or researched here, some are not.
The take away point here is that if US residents were allowed to import meds from abroad where the prices were lower, then that would put downward pressure on domestic prices as well.
Of course, like democracy, any reasonable observer can clearly see that free trade has its limits.
-marc
It’s a simple pivot for Rahmbo to cast these statements as more evidence that he’s a take-charge, tough sonofabitch and then to spin that to his advantage.
Don’t you mean “pirouette” that to his advantage?
If your thesis requires that you posit that the accomplished Mr. Obama is startlingly naive, it’s probably time to check your assumptions.
Looking back at past events and trying to explain them in terms of one man doing the hiring/firing for the largest bureaucratic behemoth on earth just distorts board, commission, cabal decisions into the vices or virtues of that one man.
It ain’t all Rahm, or all Obama. It takes a Village to pillage the world.
In all our musings about what motivates our various and sundry MOTU, why is it that we never consider that many of these people most certainly are acting under cover for hidden interests and ulterior motives?
Although perfectly understandable, explaining events based on personal-level experiences and assumptions that are actually accomplished by our metastasizing Sorcerer’s Apprentice (ie, MIC & IIC), itself internally conflicted, leads to the “insane/incompetent/mindlessly evil” argument.
IOW, Rahm’s a freakin’ mole in the model of Joe goddamn Lieberman. They’ve both all but said verbatim the same bit of treason Eric Cantor has recently said. And recall Obama’s campaign speech/pledge of fealty to Israel.
What’s the real explanation? It’s the mythology! Our worldviews shape the world stage on which we play our notorious parts long before we take it.
Instead of misunderestimating our opponents, I suggest we look to the worldviews of actors whose on-stage antics seem batshit insane.
This is what happens when you deride “ideology.” All tactics and no strategy. Ideology is a way to organize thoughts, beliefs and principles. It is your compass. You need the big picture to get from here to there.
As far as this being Rahms fault, bullshit. It’s Obama’s fault. He’s the captain of that ship.
“The more I think of it, the more I believe that all Rahm wants from the Obama White House, is distance. ”
I’m wondering about that.
Yes, Rahm wouldn’t wanted to be associated with the sinking Obama ship [as if anyone could forget his role in punching the holes in the hull], but wouldn’t a portion of his “sell” to the Chicago machine be his “in” with the Administration and ability to get goodies for Chicago?
Rahm was hired to do exactly what he did. Anyone who claims otherwise is totally braindead, or they’re pretending to be. No true progressive voter had any doubts about the whirlwind being reaped when Obummer announced Rahmbo as his Chief of Staff; we all knew *exactly* what was coming…. and nothing has been all that surprising (demoralizing? YES; surprising? Not so much).
Obamaco continues to swirl down the drain of dull vapid stupidity, frankly.
This white house makes me puke. I say to Rham: Bring it on!
Of course. That about Reid kicking Dorgan in the balls, was clear, I thought. :o)
“…is alive and well at the Orangerie…”
Jesus, if Obama attacks Iran, Digby will instantly put up 8 threads in a row, complaining about Sarah Palin’s satanic lip-gloss.
but to do so if the Obama/Jarrett/Axelrod/Gibbs/Plouffe dipshit nexus
There, fixed that for ya! ;))
“now they have the Obstructionist GOP House”
Hell, they were blaming everything on the “Obstructionist GOP” practically from day one, and a lot of people (including many here) bought it. Still do, in fact, although it has a lot of other folks scratching their heads over how such a pitifully small minority could have exerted such huge influence… and why the Dems hadn’t been able to exert similar influence when they were the minority party.
“These guys just have absolutely no judgment. None.”
Yes. But in the case of Rahm who cares.Rahm “knows where the bodies are burried” but so does axlerod, and rahm burried a lot of them. And lest we ever forget, the dipshit nexxus is in control of the CIA, FBI, IRS and “Homeland Security” apparatus. The sad thing thats something for Americans to fear now and im sure no asshole knows that better than rhambo. Im sure the blame rahm thing is part of a (really lame) plan to cozen liberals. too late. toooo fucking late.
BTW the scare quotes around Homeland security are there not because i question its existence, but because no really knows what “homeland security” actually is, or what its unprecedented numbers of operatives are doing under a blanket of “state secrets”, right here in the homeland, 24/7.
They were all predetermined as the condition
for his accepting campaign support from the banksters and Wall St.even being allowed to campaign against Hillary Clinton.Just cleaned that up for you a bit, ghost! :)
Rahm Emmanuel: the left’s
Karl Rove douchebag fascistmaster maker of malicious myths with which to jack voting blocs great and small straight to hell, sticking them with the bill in every way, in the name of good “pragmatic” governance.How’s that, Sister? ; }
This tidbit about Summers from Richard Wolffe’s book, as reported on Huffington Post, has me shaking my head:
[Summers'] doubts sat there in the West Wing, blocking the Volcker rule for months. Obama had signaled that he wanted the rule to move forward back in October. The banks were on safe ground again, but could still benefit from subsidized lending by the federal government. That seemed wrong when they could use the money to trade for themselves rather than lend it to customers in the real economy… Biden was an old friend of Volcker’s and started to press for the rule to take force. But as the weeks dragged on, Summers rehashed his same old questions and concerns. At one fall meeting with his economics team in the Oval Office, Obama wanted to know why nothing had moved yet. Summers dug in once again, while Geithner – whose media coverage cast him as a supposed ally of Wall Street – wanted to push ahead. Obama noted dryly, “I think I can argue everyone’s position now.
Nothing from our President. Just letting people like Summers stand in the way of progress. And what exactly was Obama doing those many weeks? I really can’t imagine!
Jane, you give the strutting little Chicago rooster too much credit. Yeah, he’s king cock when dealing with chickens (Democrats and otherwise) – but feared, not so much. These guys are a dime a dozen.
If ever there were a stereotypical, duplicitous, Napoleonic caricature of a self-aggrandizing, self-absorbed, self-righteous SOB, this is the guy; a common little twit with uncommon cajones but precious little else. His types are all too common in the corridors of power; small men, big ego, entitled, securing influential positions through connections not merit. His job was to ensure Dems got their share of corporate cash and he did at the expense of selling out the progressive base. He’s a backroom ‘fixer’ a ‘bag man’ by profession, adept at cajoling, bullying and intimidation. Adept at traditional, old fashioned gutter politics, a student and practitioner of Chicago style arm twisting and cronyism; lacking intellect, instinct and insight (mid-term blue dog massacre); lacking persuasive strategic thinking and skills necessary to promote and legislate effective public policy in today’s political arena. Or to put in terms with which he’s familiar, “he’s f**king retarded.”
Look, our political institutions led by the likes of Rahm and his former boss are nothing short of brothels. What does that make Rahm and his type? Are these men to be loathed or feared…or arrested?
It’s not so much that the passage is wrong (though the election losses can’t be blamed on Rahm — he was actually trying to talk them back from the edge of the cliff on health care at the beginning of the year). It’s the way that it demonstrates they have no ability to pick their battles.
Jane,
Emanual Rahm has accepted an invitation to speak ay my Psycho101 conference:
http://alanfolsom-joethephilosopher.com/joe/Psycho_101.html
Thanks,
Joe the Philosopher
Rahm probably left because staying on much longer as the scapegoat for the Obamapologists was going to make hum the most hated man in the world by the time Obama and co. gets done cutting Social Security and extending the Bush tax-cuts for the rich.
To Mauimom at 9:57 am
I hate those nested comments too! Maybe we could get rid of them, get edit back and get the numbers back on the comments. Please. It’s way too hard to participate this way.
What’s funny is that they’re correct in their estimation of Emanual. He’s abusive, domineering, and he’s a complete imbecile. But the other side of the story is that these cretins indulged him for two years. They obviously wanted him around, and they bear half the blame for going along with him.
Absolutely! Spot on.
Hoss there’s still the consideration this is all kabui and being played out for our delusions.
*G*
And if the Dim Party DOES allow Obama run it will be the biggest miscall of my life . . . *G*
HRC & A General, top of ticket for Dims in ’12.
I too would like to see more on Rahm and ChiTown.
I’d visit Driftglass but, he pissed all over Mz. Hamsher and FDL once, and that was enough . . .
Hard for me to believe that ChiTown voters would even CONSIDER Rahm and AIPAC and such.
Ayup.
Well . . . there IS that to consider.
Good call.
Janeane, Rahm was hired to exactly what he did.
Absolutely destroy Dean and the org he set up. Destroy the org Obama set up to WIN the election, hand every possible decision made to the corporate masters.
Just as Obama has . . . as has the Dim Party, etc.
Nothing new here, it all benefits the few, deregulates more, erodes civil liberties and apparently is constructed to make paupers of the masses and abscond with the wealth of the boomers . . . be it personal or entitlements (rights to medicare, SS, etc).
And as they throw him under the bus a little bit – at the VERY SAME time they say… he would be the best person to have now. He’s such a partisian Democrat – that he would not be effective trying to work with R’s since he is such a hard ass.
He’s a corporate tool. He can work with other fools and tools no matter the D or R – his real problem are his morals & ideas.
Oh, and I never played the Rahm blame game – seemed silly to blame some loser when the buck stops with POTUS.
Maddow rolled out McCain yesterday – as if we don’t know he is a flip-flopper.
Obama is like a stupid King Solomon – he actually cuts the baby in half.
It does seem odd that we can read a story about people consipiring to kidnap a pizza delivery guy and kill him for a few dollars – but not consider the lengths people would go to for trillions.