Rahm Emanuel: Obama's Chief Of Sabotage

[Me.]

By
Dan Froomkin

“The latest toxic meme to spread across the pages of my once-beloved Washington Post is that President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the one reasonable man in the White House.

First came perpetually disgruntled columnist Dana Milbank, suddenly a little ray of sunshine on the subject of the terribly underappreciated chief of staff: "Obama's first year fell apart in large part because he didn't follow his chief of staff's advice on crucial matters," Milbank wrote. "Arguably, Emanuel is the only person keeping Obama from becoming Jimmy Carter."

According to Milbank, Emanuel is the antidote to "Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs, and, to a lesser extent, David Axelrod" who "are part of the Cult of Obama. In love with the president, they believe he is a transformational figure who needn't dirty his hands in politics."

Then came a front-page "news" story this morning by Jason Horowitz fully subscribing to the "contrarian narrative" that is "emerging" -- that "Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts."...cont…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/rahm-emanuel-saboteur-of_n_482638.html

[EFerrari]

1. Wait, so now Rahm "Phyrrhus" Emmanuel is burnishing his image

by criticizing the other team members?

WTH?

And, is there anyone who can keep Dana Milbank from becoming Dana Milbank? It's worth a shot!

[Me.]

2. With A Chammois No Less

[troubledamerican]

3. Truly Mega.

[Me.]

4. We Knew He Was Going To Be Trouble

from the moment his name was announced

[troubledamerican]

5. As well as his unannounced name

Mega

[Me.]

6. Care to explain?

[Behind the Aegis]

9. The other poster is implying Rahm may be involved with the Dubai hit.

[Vidar]

7. K&R.

[upi402]

8. Obama picked him. Rahm was not an unknown

Oabama knew what he was doing when he picked all those Clinto-Republicans that started a lot of this corruption.
See; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/ <---The Warning, if you haven't yet, it's jaw dropping!

[Me.]

10. I Wonder If Obama Knew How Detrimental Rahm Would Be To His Presidency

[angelicwoman]

11. k & r