Comments on: Rahm: the Fall Guy

By: megapotamus

megapotamus — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:57:06 +0000

Rahm is a nut, anyone following him from the Clinton days knows that, but the media defenestration is absolutely miss-aimed and we all know why. It is of a piece with the seeming Lefty and other objections to the actions of Eric Holder. I am astonished that even apolitical folks would buy the notion that Holder does so much as fill his lungs without Barry signing off on it, and I suspect only media types could do so. Rahm may actually have his own agenda personally but everything he is trying to accomplish and every tactic he has employed (at least publicly) is an institutional artifact that should be signed, as even shop produced Rembrandts are, by the head of the shop. Rahm is Obama’s creature. Rahm’s actions are Obama’s, just as with Eric Holder or Hillary, until he at least makes some public repudiation of same. Has there been such? Not a peep. Rahm may be a loose cannon but he is still aimed at the targets chosen by Obama. Really, it is Obama who needs firing but his one unmistakeably genius move, choosing Biden, innoculates him well from that.

By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:28 +0000

What a coincidence. Levi pops up here to spout his propoganda when he's been smacked down. Of course, considering that he's a fan of child rapists, believes that children in mass graves are a good thing, and has yet to back up his statement about successful communist countries. Why should we be surprised? I'll link to my last list of Levi's facist tirades here and here.

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:40:59 +0000

Can I ask what the media would be doing if a Republican staff of chief (for limbaugh listeners) was seen trolling congressional showers naked for any purpose?
Rove, Haig, Sununu…

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:57 +0000

If Obama hasn’t done anything liberal in the past 14 months how the hell has he added 9 trillion to the national debt?

By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:17:44 +0000

Hey, what do you know? Everything that’s been said so far is totally wrong.

Obama is failing because he didn’t do what he was elected to do, which was end the wars, reform health care, and reform the financial industry. On the contrary, he’s done things that very much maintain the status quo and add to establishment coffers.

The idea that he’s having a hard time right now because he was too bold in implementing a radical liberal agenda is totally preposterous. He hasn’t even tried – he’s spent almost all of his time playing games with conservatives and trying to court their voters, a fool’s errand if there ever was one.

By: Robbins Mitchell

Robbins Mitchell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:58:06 +0000

Well,that is possible,of course…but given all that we have heard about Runt Emanuel before with his dead fish and sticking knives into tables etc, what Massa said seems entirely in character for him…granted,Massa is something of a liberal doofus,but with Barokeydoke pulling out all the stops to get DeathCare passed,and their penchant for employing Chicago tactics,I’m thinking that Massa’s account of that incident was probably fairly accurate

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:52:01 +0000

Let me get this straight…..
the administration led by the communtiy organizer who was a guest lecturer is floundering.
Hmm wonder why?
He’s incompetent and has no clue what he’s doing.
The health care summit…..what a great example of a clueless leader trying to come to a concensus, looking like a boob herding cats instead.
I’ve been in many a business meeting with an individual like Obama. After hours of tedious talk, the day ends with the participants looking at one another, “damn another wasted day.”

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:11 +0000

Robbins, believe me, I’m not defending Mr. Emanuel, but just wonder if Mr. Massa is stretching the truth here just a tad.

By: Robbins Mitchell

Robbins Mitchell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:49 +0000

Well,I don’t know about you,Mr Blatt,but I am personally unaccustomed to discussing ‘business’ with someone who is poking me in the chest with his finger while his johnson is hanging out….presumably that is SOP in your neck of the woods since you seem to be ok with that…Runt Emanuel is a nasty piece of work,and you do yourself no credit by trying to alibi him for what was clearly a fit of pique in an inappropriate setting.

By: American Elephant

American Elephant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:06 +0000

Rahm Emmanuel is Lee Majors??? Woah!

By: WildWillyC

WildWillyC — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:33 +0000

There’s no mystery here: it’s all about protecting the President from more embarrassment.

Every WH staffer serves at the pleasure of the President, and any or all may be called upon to “fall on their swords” at a moment’s notice if it benefits POTUS. Of course, exercise this option too many times and you’ll have a vacant West Wing for the remainder of Obama’s term.

We can only hope…

/wwc/

By: betheweb

betheweb — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:31:16 +0000

Am I the only one who sees a proxy knife fight of negative leaks between Emanuel and Axelrod? If I had to bet on one, I’d pick Rahm. It would not disappoint me to see both of them under the bus.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:31:08 +0000

On the subject of locker room etiquette. Walking up to a guy in the showers cursing and poking him in the chest is a good way to receive what is known as street justice.
It is best to take potential witnesses and plausible denability into consideration.

Now that would be something worth popping corn over.

By: Rich Vail

Rich Vail — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:52:12 +0000

I have a friend of mine who is a retired journalist who tells me that since the loss last fall in both NJ and VA, along with MA in January, that Mr. Emmanuel will be hitting the door this year. What is going on now…is merely the underlings sniping away, because they know that he’s on the way out.

By: Jason W

Jason W — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:51:08 +0000

By all means, the libs should get rid of Rahm and replace him with Michael Moore. That would fix everything.

By: jbeuks

jbeuks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:44:47 +0000

Just a week or two ago, there were lots of stories about how Emanuel was the real genius of the Administration and how much better off Obama would have been if he had followed Emanuel’s advice. At the time, it was suspected that Emanuel himself was behind these stories, and that he was trying to build himself up and cut down some of his rivals in the White House. Aren’t these latest stories likely to be a result of “counter-programming” by those rivals?

By: Wind Rider

Wind Rider — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:16:23 +0000

I almost get the impression Rahm isn’t the only one getting set up to have the chair kicked out from under him. The piece on Axelrod from this weekend (“I don’t give a flying f*ck what the peanut gallery thinks” and the defeatist “maybe next year” lines being the take aways from that ‘puff’ piece) reminds me of a paraphrase: with ‘favorable’ coverage like this. . .

If the House fails to come up with the votes to pass Obamacare, both of those guys look like they’re fully marinated dead-meat, ready to be sacrificed by the Underbusser in Chief. My guess – before Memorial Day, if not quite a bit sooner.

Anything to give the spin machine an excuse for deflecting the blame from Skippy. “It was the fault of my nitwit underlings” is a tried and true political dodge, particularly followed by a segue of ‘let us reasonably begin again, without the riff-raff to muck up the works of achieving utopian bliss from my wisdom load of crap.

By: Victor Erimita

Victor Erimita — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:09:06 +0000

Emanuel may be a scapegoat, in the sense that expunging him will not change much about how the administration operates. But he is a compelling representative of what is wrong with the admninistration. Emanuel is the real face of Barack Obama. Obama is a thug in philosophy and practice, but he needs someone else to look like the thug while he still tries to be the messianic hopenchange guy.

The shower room story has resonance because it typifies what we deplore about Emanuel. It is a story of inappropriate aggression, crossing boundaries of civilized behavior. It is bullying and unseemly. Like this entire administration.

By: GayPatriot » Obama’s Focus, not Rahm, is the Real Problem

GayPatriot » Obama’s Focus, not Rahm, is the Real Problem — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:14 +0000

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By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:43 +0000

CLDave, well said.

Judith, great point, truly great point!