If Rahm Emanuel is the voice of reason in your White House...you might be an extremist.
Just because Rahm is a liberal, doesn’t mean he isn’t shrewd. He knows, and is willing to do, what it takes to keep power. The guy would sell his own mother to win an election. I’m sure his attitude was get the economy going first, then work the healthcare issue with the political clout from the jobs thing. Unfortunately, for all of us, Obama chose to blow everything in the first year regardless of what it would do to the economy.