Rahm Emanuel should be....

[Hawkeye-X]

Poll question: Rahm Emanuel should be....

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Nice flamebait. (nt)

[Bitwit1234]

38. HOW CAN YOU VOTE WHEN AN AD DROPS OVER IT.

[mod mom]

2. How about investigated:

INVESTMENT BANKING
In Banking, Top Obama Aide Made Money and Connections
December 4, 2008, 7:08 AM

In late 1998, while Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a departing senior political aide to President Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview, The New York Times’s Michael Luo writes.

John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel.

“I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank, told The Times. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.”

And better than Mr. Emanuel could have imagined as well. Over the course of a three-hour-plus dinner, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Emanuel discussed how they might work together. Shortly afterward, Mr. Emanuel accepted an offer, nudging him down what has by now become a well-trodden gilded path out of politics and into the lucrative world of business.

Mr. Emanuel, who was chosen last month to become President-elect Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, went on to make more than $18 million in just two-and-a-half years, turning many of his contacts in his substantial political Rolodex into paying clients and directing his negotiating prowess and trademark intensity to mergers and acquisitions. He also benefited from the opportune sale of Wasserstein Perella to a German bank, helping him to an unusually large payout.

-snip
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/in-banking-top-obama-aide-made-money-and-connections/

[joeybee12]

32. Agreed...n/t

[Mari333]

3. where is "DRawn and QUartered?"

:)

[derby378]

4. No, no, no - NOT "lynched"

Please take that option out before it's too late.

Seriously.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Done

Had to edit twice..

[WeDidIt]

5. Reporting to the Secret Service

The OP advocates murdering the Chief of Staff to the PResident of the United States.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. I advocate nothing.

I just want Rahm Emanuel to resign from his post immediately, and then sit in his house waiting for his next assignment.

Hawkeye-X

[WeDidIt]

7. Even your edit still advocates murder. n/t

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Ok. I changed it again.

Does not advocate murder now.

Can we get on with it?

[tbyg52]

13. How about removing "outed" as well. nt

[galledgoblin]

40. seriously. (n/t)

[LastNaturalist]

8. ...THANKED for helping us win back control of the US House of Representatives!!

Thanks Rahm. Keep up the good work.

[Hawkeye-X]

12. Great. Now it's still time to fire Emanuel anyway because he's worthless

All he did was bring in DINO's that have already made their way into the Republican side.

Emanuel is worthless - he recruits Blue Dogs and Conservadems. We don't need those. We need progressives, true liberals and Democratic socialists (Bernie is a registered Dem Socialist)

[LastNaturalist]

15. Not quite as worthless as you though.

[Hawkeye-X]

16. I worked my butt off to bring Udall into the Senate

And I'm getting rid of our carpetbagger Senator Michael Bennet who doesn't belong in the U.S. Senate and replaced with my ex-state representative and former Speaker of the House who has attained huge popularity here in the state of Colorado.

... oh and he doesn't take PAC money.

That's my kind of Senator.

Hawkeye-X

[LastNaturalist]

20. Did you advocate murder of Udall's opponent, Schaffer?

Let's be honest, putting a sign in your yard isn't doing shit.

[Hawkeye-X]

24. No, I went canvassing, knocking doors, handing out brochures

on my own time.

I even worked on some data entry.

Which reminds me - I must go to Andrew Romanoff's office to see if they need any more data entry work..

[Hawkeye-X]

26. Oh one other thing - no-one liked Big Oil Bob except for those who live

in Fundyland.

Mark Udall (Dem)
52.7%
(1,166,207)


Bob Schaffer (GOP)
42.5%
(940,222)

Douglas Campbell (AmC)
2.5%
(56,529)

Bob Kinsey (Grn)
2.1%
(47,021)

[kctim]

19. Just curious

but how many seats do you think the Democratic Party would now hold if it only put up progressives, liberals and socialists in every state?

[Hawkeye-X]

25. Quite a lot, I'd imagine

After being lurched to the wayyyyyy-right during Raygun/Bush/Clinton/Chimp/Obama years.. it's time to head back to the left/center-left.

Right now Obama is center-right and has no intention of going back to left.

That's why Rahm was installed.

I want him out, and Obama to rememeber how he got there. It wasn't Rahm.

Hawkeye-X

[kctim]

39. Um, ok

I would bet it would be less than 30.
Either way though, thank you for answering my question.

[Vidar]

42. That would be Howard Dean. Rahm is in in charge of all the bipartisan bullshit.

[Romulox]

11. Other--Emmanuel is nothing more than a stooge designed to distract attention

from the President.

[havocmom]

23. If so, he needs to be fired for failing so miserably

[Romulox]

31. Axelrod is lauded as a genius, but his political strategems rarely transcend "good cop/bad cop"

:shrug:

[havocmom]

34. hmm, I did that re Axelrod the other day

:shrug:

[Romulox]

36. Well, "good cop/bad cop" IS probably the most basic con in existence.

I've been accusing Obama of playing "good cop/bad cop" (also known as "the unreasonable partner" con) since he ran out the clock on Michigan's primary, at any rate.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. Sorry to see "disembowled"

was taken away as an option. I thought it was perfect. :shrug:

[Hawkeye-X]

27. I know you did.. so did I..

Problem is - others didn't think so.

Yes, I capitulate, but only for my safety.

[chimpymustgo]

17. PRESIDENT RAHM? I call utter BULLSHIT. Yes, he's awful. But he's not the BOSS.

[begin_within]

18. Impeached

because he's essentially the acting President of the United States, while Obama is just his celebrity spokesmodel.

[chimpymustgo]

22. "he's essentially the acting President of the United States, while Obama is just his celebrity

spokesmodel."

Ouch.

[Mari333]

30. He reminds me of Rove and Bush

[NoPasaran]

21. Cloned

Bwahaha!

[tech9413]

28. Ignored

He's a political hack and has no moral or ethical center. For him it's all about winning by any means.

[nevergiveup]

29. One way ticket back to Chicago

This is not in any way meant to bash Obama but I believe Rahm has been his biggest mistake. I have never liked this guy and never will. Rahm has about as much empathy for the average American as does Tom Coburn. The fact that our president is getting advice/counsel from him is unsettling, to say the least.

[mod mom]

37. What do you have against Chicago?

;)

[tularetom]

33. Assigned to a new position

Cleaning out the crappers in the White House.

With a toothbrush.

[ProgressIn2008]

35. Well, thanks for taking out the "lynched" option.

Edited because some people might actually think I was being sarcastic and wanted that option.

I think RE's just about the same as the rest of 'em and Obama hired him because he is what he is. I wonder sometimes -- it really seems like folks think that Obama is getting fooled by Rahm. If it wasn't so tragic, it would be funny. But, it does show he's fulfilling his function well.

[undeterred]

41. He should go back to being a ballerina.

[mitchtv]

43. HORSEWHIPPED

my first thought