Is Rahm going to leave his post at the end of the year?

[CTyankee]

Scarborough was talking about it today on MJ and while I don't give him much credit at all I started wondering. He was saying that chiefs of staff are in a precarious position and Rahm, unlike Jarret and Axelrod, could be vulnerable, esp. if health care reform doesn't come out well.

Anybody with more substance saying this?

[lob1]

1. He can't be gone soon enough for me.

[monmouth]

2. I think the deal was for one year, didn't want to move the family,

take kids out of school, etc. I'd like to be invited to his farewell party..along with Geithner, Sommers/Summers and a bunch of others.

[FrenchieCat]

3. So Scarborough is talking about if health care reform doesn't come out well, hey?

guess he can only wish?

Wonder if he opined what would happen if health care reform did pass?
Did he mention that his party would be in the desert for 40 years?
Most likely not.

[CTyankee]

6. I hesitated at first to post this because Scar is so often just plain WRONG.

But what I found intriguing was his statement about the nature of the job of the president's chief of staff.

If health care reform DOES pass he will find it all wrong anyway and Mika will sit there like a bobble head and a sneer...

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. He can always take a job with big pharma or a health insurance company

[Bitwit1234]

5. Just long enough to screw up Health Care so his brother can profit

[LovinLife]

7. He's really useless. I really think he's the one that talks Obama into moving to the right or center

[JVS]

8. I'd applaud such a decision, unless they really dig up the worst replacement possible.

[polichick]

9. Don't like Rahm, but he's the devil we know. How far right would the next one be?! nt

[TheWraith]

10. You think Rahm is "far right?"

What color is the sky on your planet?

[polichick]

11. I think Rahm is a corporate tool - far to the right of a real Dem. nt

[amborin]

13. are you serious?

"Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, collected $18 million working less than three years at Wall Street outfit Wasserstein-Perella. I don’t think, after googling the firm, that anyone has adequately explained just what Wasserstein-Perella is. (I was writing about this stuff back in the late 1980s, so I know.) Bruce Wasserstein was one of the top leveraged buyout bandits of the 1980s, when America’s industrial companies were literally asset stripped and ripped apart. The amount of human misery Bruce Wasserstein caused with his "financial engineering" in former industrial towns from Akron to Zanesville is simply beyond imagination, but not exaggeration. After making a few billion ripping apart our country’s industrial base and looting pension funds, Wasserstein became head of Lazard Freres, the secretive but extremely powerful international private banking firm....."

snip

plus further evidence supporting Taibbi's claims:

<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/11/813139/-Ta... ;-I-add-some-history->

[neshanic still]

12. One can only wish. Then he can write that book that distances himself.

[Umbral]

14. True or not, it's the most hopeful thing I've heard in weeks. nt