Rahm "may be forced to resign"?

[ProSense]

Latest from the Rahm-obsessed media:

Emanuel has become the subject of an intense war of words between those who blame him for the failings of Obama's tough first year in office and those who insist that Obama should have listened to him more. If the controversy deepens any further, some feel that he may be forced to resign.

Reality:

MR. GIBBS: Well, look, the President has -- the President believed this in the campaign, the President believes this in the White House, that we all work together as a team, that we rise and fall together as one team. The President greatly values the skills that Rahm brings to the job of White House Chief of Staff. I don't think there's anybody better suited in this job right now as we're trying to get health care reform through Congress. And I don't think anybody that works in this building would say that there's anybody that works harder at getting -- at implementing the President's decisions than does the Chief of Staff.

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[hfojvt]

1. reality bites

[dkf]

2. Well someone is giving Obama bad advice

And if the problem is Obama himself then he needs advisers who will at least tell him where he is going wrong.

[roguevalley]

18. when presidents in the past were doing stupid stuff, usually with the

aid of stupid aides, we kicked his ass and the aide. Obama needs his ass kicked for this. How many times has he got to be told before he acts?

[dysfunctional press]

3. we can only hope that it comes to pass.

and SOON.

[LiberalFighter]

4. May the force of the universe find pleasure in Rahm's misery.

[rhett o rick]

5. And how do you feel about that? nt

[nannah]

6. it seems gibbs was very clear

rahm is the best man to get Obama's health care choices passed into legislation. taken at face value, this says the current process and status of health care is being well managed from the perspective of the white house.

[mod mom]

7. "anybody better suited in this job right now " if you are on the side of corporate interest.

Rahm has hurt this president, why doesn't he just go back to screwing Americans in investment banking. Time to get his self serving ass out of the WH.

[gmoney]

8. "some say" and "some feel" are the biggest weasel words in the media...

"some say the moon is a balloon filled with lobster bisque that can be used as a substitute for gasoline..."

[sendero]

9. Nobody has....

.... to take bad advice. Whether the advice is coming from Rahm or beelzubub, bad advice is bad advice and only fools take it.

All Obama ever had to do was live up to his OWN rhetoric.

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. +1

...and if he isn't willing to make the effort then I'll not be the least little bit sad to see his sorry self-serving ass go either...

[freddie mertz]

11. We can always hope.

[ProSense]

12. Isn't "hope" only for "cultists"? n/t

[freddie mertz]

14. Only when wielded by cultists.

I was using the word in its original context.

As being about actual hope.

Not some focus-group tested slogan.

[Edweird]

13. What difference, other than 'window dressing', would it make either way?

[slampoet]

15. Chief of Staff changes affect administrations dramatically.

Just think of the difference between Alexander Haig and Donald Regan

[Lint Head]

16. Does it not bother anyone that Rahm called liberals retarded?

I think he is the very reason we have had no change when change was the byword of the 2008 election.

[bluesmail]

17. Anybody hear Randi Rhodes on Friday? She was talking about how

if we all teamed up together, b/c we all have one thing in common: The Paycheck, if we could get over our differences with tea party people as an example, we would have the power to rule. She inferred, and I agree with her inference, those who rule the world, take the Corporations as an example, they want to divide and conquer, and it's what they've wanted for~ever. We're being played. (Used to advance their evil agenda of One World Gov't, and I believe we've had some form of NWO, just don't know for how long, b/c they're not even trying to hide it).).:evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown:

[Arkana]

19. Sounds like this war isn't being waged in the only place that matters.

That place is the West Wing.

[donco6]

20. Obama could have listened MORE?

Now there's some scary shit.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Oh yeah, HCR is going swimmingly

With the "skills that Rahm brings to the job"

[GreenTea]

22. K&R!