Rahm Emanuel Likely to Leave White House This Week

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Rahm Emanuel Likely to Leave White House This Week

Final Decision Not Yet Made, White House Chief of Staff All but Certain to Explore Campaign for Mayor of Chicago

Post a Comment By JAKE TAPPER and SUNLEN MILLER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rahm-emanuel-leave-white-house/story?id=11740794

Emanuel could leave White House on Friday to launch Chicago mayoral bid
By Lynn Sweet
on September 27, 2010 8:20 PM

WASHINGTON--White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is poised to quit the White House as early as Friday to launch his bid to run for mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

A source close to Emanuel said "Rahm is nearing a decision on whether to leave the White House and explore a run for Mayor of Chicago; an announcement could come as early as Friday. Because of family considerations, no final decision has been made."

President Obama said Monday that White House chief Rahm Emanuel needs to make "a decision quickly" about running for mayor of Chicago. The word from the Emanuel source confirms what I reported last week that all signs point to Emanuel leaving the White House to move back to Chicago and run for mayor in the Feb. 22 primary.

In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer on "The Today Show," Obama said, "Well, I think that Rahm will have to make a decision quickly, because running for mayor of Chicago is a serious enterprise. And I know this is something he's thinking about."

Asked if he would endorse Emanuel for mayor, Obama reminded Lauer that he already said Emanuel would make "an excellent mayor. But until he makes a decision, I'm not going to be making decisions about how I'm going to approach it."

Emanuel is the only Chicago mayoral contender who has been mute--totally--not a word on the record--about his thoughts on running for mayor. What we know--on the record--has been channeled through third parties who have talked to Emanuel such as White House senior advisor David Axelrod, Rep. Danny Davis, Rep. Mike Quigley and others.

Obama is likely to tap advisor Pete Rouse--who served as Obama's chief of staff when he was an Illinois senator--as interim chief of staff upon Emanuel's departure, but no final decision has been made.

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[HughMoran]

1. Is he going to come back?

:rofl:

[RavensChick]

2. I hope not!

If he wins in Chicago, expect a mass exodus to erupt in the Windy City!

[DemocraticPilgrim]

3. Illinois please vote him as Mayor the nation is depending on it, then he won't come back.

[rsmith6621]

4. I Certianly Am Not Going To Pay For Him.....

....to exercise his option....Good riddins Rahm...aint going to miss you.

[still_one]

5. He is not coming back. Al Hunt on Bloomberg mentioned it two weeks ago /nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Unless he's made a secret deal with Daley, I don't see him winning.

[Fire1]

14. Ditto. n/t

[Hawkowl]

15. Agree completely .nt

[Canuckistanian]

7. Explore away, Rahm

Just as long as it's "away"

[arcane1]

8. I know nothing about Pete Rouse

but I hope he's an improvement!

[gateley]

20. Who? Is this the replacement conventional wisdom is talking about?

ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rouse

Sounds pretty good, but who knows who wrote it?

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[xxqqqzme]

10. I see you share my

sentiments.

[verges]

11. Don't hold back.

How do you really feel about him?

[leveymg]

12. A-h-h-h-h. (Exhale) Now I feel so much better.

Believe it or not, I haven't let myself express what I really feel about him until now. His departure is . . . liberating.

Hope it has the same effect on others, particularly in the White House and DCCC.

[Hawkowl]

16. +1000

Fuck him. He is a complete fucking failure and I'll eat my shoe if he comes anywhere close to winning the Chicago Mayoral race. He doesn't have a chance. It is just a face saving reason for him to resign before the peasants stick a pitchfork in him.

[ibegurpard]

13. Hope he's honest and runs as a repuke

[BlueIdaho]

17. Here's your hat...

What's your hurry?

[Clio the Leo]

18. Daschle leading the rumor mills race for likely permanent replacement...

per Adriel Bettelheim
http://twitter.com/abettel/status/25753072340

And that would be my guess as well ... the President apparently thinks very highly of him (as do most of the Dems in Congress) and we all remember how he was the 1st pick for HHS Sec.

Plus, he's got those cute red glasses. :)

[denimgirly]

21. From one Corporate Pet to Another -- Geez, when are we gonna get a REAL Democrat

Although daschel is better than Rahm he is certainly in the pockets of corpoations...BIG TIME

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

19. Good riddance

May he never set foot outside of Chicago again.

[Clio the Leo]

22. Mike Allen says picks to replace permanently replace Rahm are.....

Tom Donilon, the deputy national security adviser; Ron Klain, chief of staff to the vice president; and Rouse, for keeps.
http://www.politico.com/playbook/0910/playbook1187.html

(and I trust Allen over most on the issue)

[mkultra]

23. This is Obama's way of Caving to left pressure without looking like it

If he where to show it, it would create a myriad of problems.