Posted on 11/06/2008 6:27:31 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
Liberal Attack Dogs: Rep. Rahm Emanuel and Sen. Charles Schumer
July 6, 2006 – The Los Angeles Times’ July 5, 2006 edition featured an article about the tactics used by two powerful Democrats to attack the Bush Administration to regain control of the House or Senate in November.
The article describes the behind the scenes work of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), head of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
According to the Times, both men “have deployed tactics reminiscent of the smoke-filled room of yore. They have hand-picked candidates, crafted campaign themes, set fundraising goals and micromanaged staff hiring decisions for candidates around the country.”
The Times notes of Emanuel, “Emanuel’s reputation for political ruthlessness earned him the nickname ‘Rahmbo,’ an image reinforced by a legendary episode when he sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him.” Emanuel has also worked for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and served as a senior aide to President Bill Clinton.
Senator Schumer is described as a dogged fundraiser and overbearing in how he operates. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Schumer has been a relentless critic of President Bush’s judicial nominees.
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What kind of human being sends a rotting, dead fish to a political adversary?
I know, I know; idiomatic use of the feminine ending on a masculine name. Y'all who are indignant can complain to the Italian language police.
Monk get in here
I’d love to see Todd Palin and Ballerina Boy in a steel cage death match!
I can't wait for the day when(Up)Chuck Shummer is caught having paid $1000 an hour hookers with US Government cash.
And Brazi not Brasi
Not to play into his hands ... Chicago-style politicians want to be feared.
Thanks, I do appreciate the correction.
Such upstanding character, that Rahm. Chairman Obama’s gonna surround himself with third-rate gangsters.
Rahm “Luca Brazi” Emanuel.
Much better, thanks.
No, Brasi is correct. "Brazi" would be pronounced BRAHT-zee. The name was BRAH-zee.
The better way is to retain the original title of the article, so that other posters can do a search for it and avoid duplication. There’s plenty of room for added cleverness in the thread.
The man is determined. He’s their pit-bull.
Is Rahm a homo?
Fair enough. I’ve only been here a couple of weeks, so bear with me.
No idea. I know h’s a former ballet dancer (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Ironic, eh?
I firmly believed that it was Rahm Emanuel, not Dr. Andy Sarris who wrote “The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life (Or Nature’s Debt to Society)”
Luca Brasi. They got the last name right.
Chuck and Rahm: La Kosher Nostra!
LOL!! No offense taken (I’ve been suffering for 2,000 years...don’t you think I’m tough-skinned?).
Call me silly, but I can't get excited about a girly man who does that.
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Doesn’t offend this Jew. There’s no other voting bloc that votes more often against their own self-interest than my fellow Jews.
Wouldn’t he be more like Hyman Roth.
“Thanks, I’ll be here all week!”
Good point, a Meyer Lansky-like character.
The dead fish conjured up the famous “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fish” line.
"Leave the gun, take the Knish."
True...very true.
I’m another one. I cannot look at my liberal coreligionists anymore (luckily almost all my Jewish friends are conservatives). 77% of Jews voted for Obamanation. DisGUSting.
The GOP has become the political equivalent of Fredo.
...and we won’t forget to tip the waitresses.
Enjoy the veal too!
Welcome to FR! I’m a member of the Glorious Language Squad! (Not.) I should have checked your sign-in date and modified my tone accordingly. Have a good run here.
77% ??? That is very, very sad and disturbing. Obama sits in the pews for 20 years with a blatantly ant-Semitic pastor, surrounds himself with the likes of Bonior, Khalidi and McPeak, waffles on a united Jerusalem, and my people go out and vot for hm in droves.
I hate to have to say it but, unless there is video of Rahm slamming that steak knife into the table, this is a non-starter.
The pitfalls of the YouTube era..........
Having a father who knew how to plant bombs and pull a trigger doesn’t make the ballerina tough. Actually, the ballerina is just a bully - and gets away with it not because he is tough but because he has a mob around him.
Things didn’t turn out too good for Luca Brasi.....
And the Democrats have become the Marx Brothers.
You didn’t.
Meyer Lansky, Gurrah Shapiro, Bugsy Siegel, and Lepke Buchalter used to joke that they were the Kosher Nostra branch of Luciano’s Commission.
If you study the history of the Mafia in the United States, there’s always been a close association between the Italian and Jewish gangsters.
They mutually hated the Irish Mobs.
Especially in Chicago. Besides his Italian lieutenants such as Frank Nitti, Phil D’Andrea, Mops Volpe, et. al, Capone’s financial wizard was Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik and one of his transporation and shipping geniuses was Oskar Kullak.
They waged a six-year war with the Irish North Side Mob led first by Deanie O’Bannion and then Bugs Moran....culminating in a garage on Clark St on February 14th, 1929.
And, a book I read about the Jewish mob said that the hitters who dressed up as cops for the St Valentine’s Day Massacre were Jews from Minneapolis’ Purple Gang. And he was “Greasy Thumbs” Guzik becasue none of Capone’s money ever stuck to his fingers.
Hot tea > nose> pain! LOL
A black is in control with his strings being pulled by the jews.
Louie's in the Bronx, best in the city. ( sorry couldn't help it)
Something tells me that so much as one dollar of the Big Fella’s money sticking to Guzik’s fingers would have gotten Ol’ Jake a one-way ride.......
GOP: Send the GOP off to do this! Send the GOP off to do that! Let the GOP take care of some Mickey Mouse state house somewhere! Send the GOP to pick some ambassador up at the airport. I'm the Party of Government, and I was stepped over!
Don Obama: That's the way the Media wanted it.
GOP: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says, like dumb! I'm smart and I want respect!
I just hope the GOP doesn’t take up the Rat’s invitation to go fishing.
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