Why liberals will be glad to see Rahm Emanuel go

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– Wed Sep 29, 4:30 pm ET

By David Weigel

Every two or three days, the Obama administration tries out a line intended to shame liberals into voting. "Folks, wake up," said President Obama last week. "Those who didn't get everything they wanted," said Vice President Biden this week, "it's time to just buck up here."

If the early leaks are right, the "professional left" — Press Secretary Robert Gibbs's instantly immortal, probably accidental term — is about to get all the bucking-up it needs. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, according to just about everybody, is probably leaving the White House this week to prove that Chicago can be governed by someone not named "Daley." He is being treated to more of the rose-scented superlatives that followed him since he returned to politics in 2002, when he ran the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006, and when he joined the Obama administration. "He began each day before the sun did," reported Jake Tapper of ABC News, "often by swimming a mile, and he was perhaps the hardest worker in the White House."

This is the kind of stuff liberals are used to hearing about Emanuel. If it ever impressed them, it doesn't anymore. After two years of Emanuel, they are convinced that he was a paper tiger, a hack who never missed a chance to weaken the progressive agenda and a man whose toughness never translated to big, meaningful victories over Republicans.

Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, one of many online salons of anti-Rahm sentiment, said he thought Emanuel would come in and bust heads the way he did in the House. "Instead, we got a White House more obsessed with getting Enzi aboard the health care reform plan than on passing the best possible legislation and doing whatever it took to make it happen."

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[madrchsod]

1. he was a snake in the grass in illinois

he certainly did`t fool me.

now he`s coming back to try and run the third largest city in america. we don`t need him in illinois

[whistler162]

2. very simple they need a new target in that office to attack....

The atack material on Rahm has gotten a tad stale!

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3. kick n/t