Just heard good news (to me anyway) about R. Emanuel

[fadedrose]

Just heard he's quitting to run for mayor of Chicago.

When Hillary Clinton lost the nomination, I rememer some news/rumors about Carville and Mary returning to Arkansas...and they stayed, I guess.

Maybe Hillary is doing well and is supportive of the President, but I don't like the old Clinton crowd so close to the White House (and that goes for some of the old Bush crowd as well).

I feel that when things go wrong, there is no one with gravitas and loyalty who stands up for the President. Do they want things to go wrong so that he gets only one term?

(edited to change Cleveland to Chicago, sorry)

[WeDidIt]

1. I doubt seriously if it's true.

Rahm will not leave until January 2013.

[laughingliberal]

2. Would be good news, if true, but do we have anything beyond a rumor? nt

[Ozymanithrax]

3. So what's the news about RE?

And what the hell are you talking about?

[fadedrose]

8. Just heard on MSNBC

that Rahm is quitting to run for mayor of somewhere, and that his term as Chief Advisor was only supposed to be for 18 months. First I ever heard of that...

Couldn't be too soon.

(My own dog in this race is Dean, and I can't shake the opinion that anybody who doesn't like Dean is worthy of the position that Rahm has).

[monmouth]

14. He did not move his family to DC so there may be a glimmer of

truth to this. Could have been the plan all along..

[Ozymanithrax]

30. Dean is not going to be considered for Chief of Staff...

Chief of staff must know where the bodies are burried and be willing to dig them up. He must be a monumental asshole as part of his job description. Rahm, for all his short comings, was ideal for the position.

[TayTay]

4. Considering Rahm is from Illinois

That is a very funny New Year's joke. Either Cleveland is desperate or Rahm is geography-challenged.

Good one!

[fadedrose]

16. Yes, Chicago, yes

I was so happy to hear he was leaving that all I cared about was that he was leaving, and that he wasn't coming to Michigan.

[bigwillq]

17. Can you still edit?

:shrug:

[fadedrose]

19. Yes, but my face was too red and I can't type or think with a red face..thanks..

nt

[bigwillq]

20. Thanks for editing (nt)

[TayTay]

31. LOL! If I had a nickel for every time I made a typo

I would be knee-deep in nickels.

No problem. Been there, done that, blushed so badly people thought I had a bad sunburn.

[AngryAmish]

5. Cleveland? No Chcago

And he will never run. Daley has Rahm's balls in his pocket.

[fadedrose]

10. Thank you for the correction

I was so happy to hear he was leaving that where he was going was irrelevant to me...yes, they did say Chicago, not Cleveland..

[SteppingRazor]

6. Chicago, not Cleveland. And it's still a rumor.

In any case, I really doubt Rahm wants to run against Daley.

[dysfunctional press]

9. i don't think that daley will get another term.

the parking meter thing has LOTS of people VERY pissed off.

[VMI Dem]

7. So you don't like the President having like minded people around him?

Ok.

[fadedrose]

12. I don't think they are like-minded...

I really like this president, and I feel that some of those serving him are doing more harm than good....

[VMI Dem]

13. He is a centrist.

Why not have centrists as advisers?

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Obama is a centrist.

Rahm is a RW DLC asshole.

There is a difference.

EDIT to correct transposed letters.

[JackRiddler]

28. Because this is a democracy and the people's representative are supposed to consider different views

[Romulox]

15. We hate to believe that the President thinks like Rahm. nt

[hlthe2b]

11. Mayor of Cleveland? Chicago, maybe, but Cleveland?

:wtf:

[Romulox]

18. Listen up guys, this is important: Not Cleveland, I think it's Chicago!

there's joy in repetition.

[Berry Cool]

22. Cleveland's mayor is just starting his second term so that would've been kinda dumb.

Some of you people, LOL..."Oh, I dunno what city it was, just something in the Midwest that starts with C...Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati...they're all the same..."

[clear eye]

21. The rumor was about his running for mayor of CHICAGO

which is what he claimed his intentions were when he was first tapped as CoS. With his buddy Blagojevich not only out, but disgraced, following that plan seems highly unlikely. (http://nalert.blogspot.com/2010/01/will-rahm-emanuel-run-for-mayor-of.html)

[bigwillq]

24. The OP has edited (nt)

[fadedrose]

23. I'll bet Cleveland is relieved .....nt

[liberal N proud]

25. Have you seen Cleveland's system?

Couldn't get any worse.

[GinaMaria]

27. from Chicago Tribune

Rahm in the mayor's race would be quite a fish tale

John Kass

January 6, 2010

On my first day back at work after vacation, the political news from Washington hit me like a cold dead fish in the face:

Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago?

That's enough to freeze the bowels of every voter in the land.

"Emanuel, the most political animal in this town ... is said to have told people that the ( White House) chief of staff role is an 18-month job and that he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago," wrote columnist Sally Quinn in the Washington Post on Tuesday.

With Hollywood continuing to suck up to the Obama administration, imagine the benefits of a Rahmsian mayoral campaign. HBO's "Entourage" could film here. The lead character, a charismatic Hollywood agent named Ari, is based on Rahm's brother, Ari.

snip

But the editors eat in Washington. They don't eat in Chicago. Yes, papers from Washington and New York periodically dispatch their foreign correspondents to our gritty Midwestern precincts to chronicle our quaint, earthy ways. But they never quite get it.

Just one year ago, Obama was in his first miracle phase, feeding the multitudes with two fish sandwiches and five hot dog buns. He was applauded as a reformer, even while putting Chicago City Hall guys in charge of the world.

Later, a few journalists were annoyed at Obama's penchant for meekly bowing down before measly foreign kings and emperors. But bowing meekly is what every young Illinois state senator does when summoned to the mayor's office in Chicago.

When the president installed Rahm as his chief of staff, the Washington media were turgid with respect, praising Rahm as a shrewd political alley fighter, a maestro of profanity, a former ballet dancer tough enough to send a dead fish to an enemy, just like a Hollywood gangster.

Naturally, the national media marveled that Obama selected a Clinton guy, Emanuel, to run things.

But Rahm is no Clinton guy. He's a Daley guy.

read more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-06-jan06,0,4786725,print.column

[daa]

29. James and Mary live in New Orleans nt