Getting rid of Emanuel would change little.

[cali]

Try to grasp this: Emanuel is doing the President's bidding. It's that fucking simple. And it sure ain't rocket science.

[TiberiusGracchus]

1. Yep, unfortunately it's hard for non-chicagoans to grasp this but...

Rahmbo isn't that much worse compared to Jarrett, Axelrod and the president himself. It's really no exaggeration to say that this administration is quite possibly the most disciplined and methodical democrat political organization in decades.

[Laelth]

2. Sadly, I must admit that you are probably right. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[Captain Hilts]

3. He was the FIRST guy the prez picked to work with him. The Prez wants him there. nt

[Liberation Angel]

4. It would change a lot...Rahm is poisonous to Obama and to all of us...

I sometimes wonder if Rahm is doing the bidding of others...

who want the dems to fail

[ljm2002]

5. Precisely.

When he first chose Rahm Emanuel, I was okay with it. I figured that President Obama would use him as the pit bull he is, in order to enforce the more liberal policies that the President would be pushing for.

Boy, was I wrong! Not about the pit bull part, but about the liberal policies part.

Oh well. While I'm still glad McCain did not win, Obama has lost any enthusiasm I may have had for him. It's just more of the same old, same old.

[Individualist]

6. That's true

As soon as he was elected, Obama began surrounding himself with DLCers and Bush holdovers.

[lame54]

7. keeping him would change nothing

[Malikshah]

8. Simple? More like the OP

Emanuel and Obama are old hands. They enable each other. The first sign to me that the Obama admin was going down the wrong path was when Rahm was made COS.

He's a bad person. It's that fucking simple.

[cali]

9. kick for a ;new idiot "fire rahm" thread