Rahm Emanuel to Romney: ‘If You Can’t Stand up to Rush, How Are You Going to Stand up to Russia?

[kenfrequed]

23. Hmm...

Well, I won't argue that he is a bit on the corrupt side and that he favors corporations a bit too much, but really there is method to his positioning. Unfortunately it is a method that contradicts the ideals of the party and the defense of the working class.

He is obsessed with putting points on the board, winning the spin cycle, avoiding conflicts, and passing or signing anything. In this way he is good at the political equivalent of small arms tactics. His best use would be to GIVE him what the strategy is and ORDER him to accomplish it on a small scale.

By having him be put in charge of winning the war you end up with a situation where the conflict is never enacted, where positions are never presented or defended, and where the best that can be expected is that he adopts enough of the enemies ideology so that the republicans never have to fight and they never are confronted with the ideocy of their own doctrine. His idea of 'winning' has nothing to do with leading or accomplishing anything of actual import.

Again, yes he is comfortable with corporate power, but only inasmuch as it leads to 'not losing.'