From Charlie Pierce: "Rahm Emanuel's Disastrous Stint as Chicago Mayor Is Officially a Campaign

[kath]

Issue: Sounds Good To Me"

Given my choice of which disreputable Illinois political figure I'd rather see repudiated in Tuesday's presidential primaries, I'd probably pick Bruce Rauner. Governor Grabitall is a very underrated member of the national Republican gubernatorial clown show. But, if it has to be Rahm Emanuel who gets a humiliating public kneecapping, well, I can certainly live with that, too. After all, Rauner is their foul-tempered incompetent. Mayor Rahm is all ours: Made his bones in the 1992 Clinton campaign; got tossed from the Clinton White House for being too much of a dick to too many people; served six relatively nondescript years in the House of Representatives; worked hard to steal credit from Howard Dean for the Democratic victories in the 2006 midterms; was unaccountably hired as White House Chief of Staff in 2009 by the president, in which capacity he did his hippie-punching damnedest to submarine the Affordable Care Act, and then left, one step ahead of the disastrous 2010 midterms, to become mayor of Chicago, in which capacity he has managed to alienate every Democratic interest group while courting various dilettante plutocrats for the purpose of destroying public education in that city. There are calls for his resignation.

Did I miss anything?

It seems that Bernie Sanders has decided to make a meal out of Mayor Rahm. Nom, nom, nom.

More at link (article is short. Some very good comments.) http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43005/rahm-emmanuel-2016-issue/

[hedda_foil]

1. Please read this bit. It's SO on the money that it hurts just to read it.

The incipient violence at Trump events, judging from TV, is very reminiscent of Wallace rallies. Wallace used the press as foils. He threatened to run over any demonstrators lying in front of his parades. I remember a rally in Boston in 1976 at the old Statler Hotel, during the busing turmoil, where a lone heckler in the balcony got the crap beat out of him while the crowd cheered. Wallace took the mic to demand attention. He said something like, "I'm the main attraction. That fellow up there, he's just an undecided voter." For all the edge, it was apparent to the press that Wallace was game-playing and he never was a real threat to win a nomination. Something about Trump seems a bit more sinister. Maybe a better comparison is Hitler.

More sinister than George Wallace, says a man who knows. If that doesn't give you pause, I don't know what will.

[Duppers]

4. So many parallels

I made the comparison with Wallace a couple of weeks ago during a discussion with my hubs. He agreed.

[highprincipleswork]

2. Couldn't happen to a more deserving potroast.

[Betty Karlson]

3. Best part: Clinton is tied to him by Third Way...

nom nom nom, indeed!