Firedoglake: "Rahm is Making the White House Look Terrible"

[mcablue]

"Two more reporters have confirmed Politico’s account: TNR’s Jonathan Cohn and HuffPo’s Ryan Grim. In fact both Cohn and Grim pass on the ID of this anonymous White House figure: Rahm Emanuel."

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/12/14/rahms-making-the-white-house-look-terrible/

[tekisui]

1. Rahm has always been more concerned with the appearance of

success than actual success. He thinks a any win is a win. Obama gave him too much.

[yurbud]

16. more accurate to say he's more concerned with carrying corporate water than even winning.

If Dems did health care reform right, they would have swept the 2010 election and Obama would have a big laurel going into 2012. Instead, Rahm put short term corruption instead of long term political gain (and the public good). Hell, if they had done health care reform right, most people would probably look the other way at them going easy on Wall Street and other malefactors, but they just couldn't keep their fingers out of the honey pot.

[sasquatch]

2. Time to send Rahm home

[still_one]

11. Obama wouldn't have chosen him if he didn't want him. No one should delude themseleves /nt

[sasquatch]

12. But Obama said this was going to be a cabinet of rivals

[AllentownJake]

14. Yes

Big Pharma, Banking, Insurance, and Agribusiness. What they are rivaling for is dollars.

[democracy1st]

17. LMAO

[amborin]

3. no, the White House chose Rahm: $18 mill in 3 yrs:

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... >

[IndianaGreen]

4. Rahm is doing Obama's bidding

Like Erlichman did Nixon's.

[amborin]

5. um,

Rahm did not hire Obama, rather the opposite, right?

and Rahm's background and thus true sentiments are available for anyone to see....

[rollingrock]

13. Bush hired Karl Rove too, as his chief of staff

but I think we all know who was pulling the strings, don't we? ...President Rove

[AllentownJake]

6. President Obama is making President Obama make bad

Oh he waits till December to talk about what the banks are up to...shit, seems to me they've been engaged in fucking Shenanigans since 10 seconds after his hands were off the Bible he was sworn in on.

[still_one]

10. Absolutely, and the Democrats in Congress are making the Democrats look bad also /nt

[roguevalley]

15. no matter what, the buck stops with obama. obama just wants a bill

to sign even if its shit. rahm actually thinks his bullshit and bluster is talent. I am about to say fuck them both.

[PurityOfEssence]

7. But it's never Obama

It can't be. It just can't. He's a visionary progressive despite all his legislative record. He's everything we want him to be regardless of anything he does. It's these weasely subordinates, regardless of the responsibility of the captain to keep the crew in line.

How dare anyone make him look bad. THAT'S the true crime: that he might be tainted when he's by definition irreproachable.

Cult.

[still_one]

9. He's only the President. /nt

[still_one]

8. If Obama didn't want it to happen it wouldn't happen. /nt