Rahn Emanuel expected to quit

[nageov3t]

Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to "bang heads together" to get policy pushed through.

Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ahm-Emanuel-expected-to-quit-White-House.html

after seeing how ineffectual the Obama administration has been with him, I'm kinda scared for their agenda's prospects without him.

 

[theeedude]

It's a sad day for America. Obama needs to get a lot tougher.

 

[SandEagle]

good riddance

 

[her209]

Maybe he's upset over Obama's handling of Israel.

 

[Narmer]

You couldn't find a better source in the Americas?

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Is there any more room?


for what it's worth(little to nothing) - the WH has denied he is leaving.

 

[Patranus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ahm-Emanuel-expected-to-quit-White-House.html

after seeing how ineffectual the Obama administration has been with him, I'm kinda scared for their agenda's prospects without him.

This.

 

[boomerang]

Is there any more room?


for what it's worth(little to nothing) - the WH has denied he is leaving.

Surely you're not implying the WH would lie - right? I mean...Robert Gibbs?

 

[Lemon law]

True or not, no one can say Rahm has been especially effective at getting the Obama agenda passed. Maybe time to give someone else a try.

After all how many generals did Lincoln have to try before he found Grant? But once Lincoln found the right General, the Confederacy was toast.

There is plenty of room under the Obama bus for Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Rush Limbaugh. A few moves forward, some backing up, and those rascals can become sweet street art decorations.

 

[Sclamoz]

Is there any more room?


for what it's worth(little to nothing) - the WH has denied he is leaving.

Funny how the right wingers spend a lot of time bitching about Emanuel and now based soley on the rumor he's quitting apparently Obama is throwing him under the bus?!

 

[sandorski]

Funny how the right wingers spend a lot of time bitching about Emanuel and now based soley on the rumor he's quitting apparently Obama is throwing him under the bus?!

Indeed. They should be the one doing the Happy Dance.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Funny how the right wingers spend a lot of time bitching about Emanuel and now based soley on the rumor he's quitting apparently Obama is throwing him under the bus?!

Didn't you get the memo? Anything and everything President Obama does is subject to criticism; after all, if he does it, it has to be part of a Kenyan Muslim Socialist Communist Marxist plot to destroy America.

 

[Double Trouble]

Good riddance to that scum, hopefully he does leave and the president replaces him with someone better.

 

[Throckmorton]

Rahm has been undermining Obama's "brand" of Hope and Change since the beginning. He's the one who apparently turned healthcare reform into the sausage making machinations, rather than a public opinion campaign it should have been. He needs to go.

 

[sciwizam]

Isn't around 2 years the norm for CoSs?

 

[woolfe9999]

Rahm has been undermining Obama's "brand" of Hope and Change since the beginning. He's the one who apparently turned healthcare reform into the sausage making machinations, rather than a public opinion campaign it should have been. He needs to go.

There's some more back story to this. After the Scott Brown election in January, apparently Emmanuel and Pelosi had a huge disagreement over how to go forward with the bill. Rahm favored doing a scaled down, smaller bill, believing that a comprehensive reform bill was impossible, but Pelosi still wanted to go for it all. Apparently Obama, after taking the month of February to make up his mind, went with Pelosi, and the rest is history. There's that and probably other water under the bridge between Obama and Emmanuel, and hence this does not surprise me.

- wolf

 

[cubby1223]

I'm just waiting for him to testify in the Blagojovich trial

 

[SP33Demon]

Funny how the right wingers spend a lot of time bitching about Emanuel and now based soley on the rumor he's quitting apparently Obama is throwing him under the bus?!

Right wingers have a lot of free time hiding in their basement clutching their bibles and guns in fear of Obama the Muslim Extremist.

 

[chowderhead]

Emanuel is kicked off the ballot for mayor of Chicago. He will most likely appeal but he is running out of time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/rahm-emanuel-mayor-chicago_n_813126.html

 

[JS80]

lol karma's a bitch

 

[boomerang]

Nice to see that the city isn't totally lawless.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Emanuel is kicked off the ballot for mayor of Chicago. He will most likely appeal but he is running out of time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/rahm-emanuel-mayor-chicago_n_813126.html

Any appeals will be outside of Chicago's reach :thumbsup:

 

[waggy]

good. i didn't see how he could be on it anyway.

but never count him out. he has some powerful friends

 

[*kjm]

But... but.... Laws are just for little people:whiste:

 

[trenchfoot]

Obama should get somebody who has the character, style and morals that Karl Rove is famous for.

At the least, the repubs will then know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that kind of politicking and it might even level the playing field somewhat.

Then the repubs would get this kind of stuff thrown back at them for a change: Lie, cheat, undermine, stall, stall, stall and stall some more, obstruct, obstruct and obstruct some more, deceive, propagandize, subvert and fillibuster them into impotence.

I mean, why not? It seems the voters approved of this kind of destructive chicanery by letting the repubs have the House, so it shouldn't be a problem with them with things going back the other way?:biggrin: