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How Rahm Is Reviving the GOP
thedailybeast.com ^ | August 25, 2009 | John Batchelor

Posted on 08/25/2009 11:19:32 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Republicans are once again ascendant—and for this they can thank Rahm Emanuel. John Batchelor gets the scoop from gleeful conservatives on the trail of Democratic destruction left by Obama’s bullying enforcer.

Suddenly the disgraced and demoralized Republican Congress has an unearned future, thanks to the superhuman clumsiness of a man who has made himself indispensable to the Obama administration and insufferable to the Democratic Congress, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

The GOP always knew that Emanuel was a problem that could not be solved and could only be endured while he served three tempestuous terms in the House. But now the beleaguered Democratic majority is learning painfully that Emanuel’s talents for bullying, whimsical favoritism, cheerful power-grabbing, and self-congratulatory earthiness have transformed the first hundred days of the Obama administration’s seamless accomplishment into a second hundred days of blame and gloom.

First, Emanuel used frontman Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Finance Committee chair, to ditch the health-care public option, while sending President Obama to speak softly at dinner at the home of prickly Senator Charles Grassley (R-Grant Wood). The latest Emanuel co-authored ploy—forcing health-care legislation through in the fall with Democratic-only votes—underlines that the White House has become as deaf, daring, and driven as the fabled Democratic machines of Tammany Hall or Emanuel’s own Cook County, where he was a once and future fundraiser for the Daleys.“We suck,” a blunt Republican partisan reports, “but they suck more right now.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: batchelor; gop; rahm; rebuilding
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To: Liz

Jews as NAZIs...all in the course of a single life.

To quote Shakespeare:

“My how the worm turns.”


21 posted on 08/25/2009 4:56:32 PM PDT by johnnycap
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To: johnnycap

As they say on the Alpo can, “Every dog has his day.”


22 posted on 08/25/2009 7:06:41 PM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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To: Liz
How about dual Indonesian-American citizens? Are they allowed to hold high federal government positions (say, Commander in Chief)?

Of course BHO may have renounced his Indonesian citizenship at some point, since he has kept all his papers away from public scrutiny.

23 posted on 08/26/2009 9:31:31 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Why are these Obama documents off-limits to Americans?

1. Certified copy of original birth certificate

2. Columbia University transcripts

3. Columbia thesis paper

4. Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups

5. Harvard University transcripts

6. Illinois State Senate records

7. Illinois State Senate schedule

8. Law practice client list and billing records/summary

9. Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mothers

10. Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)

11. Occidental College Transcripts

12. Parent’s marriage Certificate

13. Record of baptism

14. Selective Service registration records

15. Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007

16. Scholarly articles

17. Access to his grandmother (now passed away)

18. List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists

19. Punahou grade school records

How many people has Obama neutralized to stay in power? He went to Occidental and Columbia, as well as Harvard law school. None of his classmates have surfaced. No frat brothers. No law school friends. What about high school and elementary school friends? Could they all have been neutralized?


24 posted on 08/26/2009 9:41:06 AM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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