Sticking it to Rahm: Inside story Of Why Not a Single House Republican Supported the President

The Daily Beast ^ | 1/29/09 | John Batchelor

[mojitojoe]

One word for Rahm- PUNK

[sauropod]

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[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I’m glad the Pubs stayed together, but as this vote shows, it doesn’t really matter because the Rats have an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives.

[r9etb]

“Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back,” said a senior Republican. “If we had gotten together in a room and tried to write a bill that put the taxpayer together with the Republican Party, we could not have come up with this thing. It is too unbelievable.”

OK, that's very nice.

The really importan question, though, is whether or not Republicans can figure out what we stand for, and then figure out how to communicate it effectively to the taxpayers.

We've already been down the wrong path with this sort of thing with Newt Gingrich's "Contract for America."

Regardless of what it was meant to be, it ended up being little more than a lightning rod for what we were opposed to, where Bill Clinton was concerned. Clinton's mistakes, and Democrat hubris, led to the Republican victories in '94 -- the Contract fed voter disgust with the ruling party.

But -- and we forget this at our peril -- Bill Clinton went on to use the Contract fact to feed Gingrich his own teeth. Clinton's re-election was primarily enabled by Mr. Gingrich's inept attempts to force the Contract through, and by the Republicans' inability to convince the voters that it meant anything positive.

[browardchad]

I don’t think that it is the sole reason.

Neither do I.

He is not doing the Republicans any favors by publishing this stuff - at least not with Americans who are more interested in the economy and their financial situation than in Rahm Emanuel.

Agreed. Emanuel's acknowledged to be obnoxious, and possibly playing good-cop/bad-cop for his boss, but in the long run, who cares? It's the result that counts.

Batchelor's trying to feed some unsourced gossip into the mill -- the situation's a bit too grim for that silliness.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Soon, 0bama will realize that success while having Rahm E on his team is like scoring on a first date with a parasitic twin hanging bareass from your cheek.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe the Chicago machine told BHO to pick Rahm as his chief of staff.

It would be nice if Blagojevich brought Rahm down, but I'm not counting on it.

[Liz]

Here's the Chicago enforcer in the WH.

Obama's COS, Rahm Emanuel, pledging allegiance to the USA on inaguration day.

[Billthedrill]

Now that he’s Obama’s chief of staff, the Republicans have him to poke at for at least four years.

Wanna bet?

[Uncle Miltie]

"The dream of post-partisanship did not last one vote in the Congress."

Hope.

Change.

Now what Zero?

[Liz]

White House Rahm in action. At a top-level meeting with Pelosi and others, Obama complained to Emanuel about his tendency to loudly crack his knuckles. “At which point,” The Times reported, “Mr. Emanuel held the offending knuckle up to Mr. Obama’s left ear and, like an annoying little brother, snapped off a few special cracks.”

Rahm's insubordination is breathtaking.....questions aside about the propriety of doing that to ANYONE, much less the President of the United States,

The pained expression on Obama's face in that first hour in the Oval Office, as Rahm leaned over him, was VERY telling.

Obama knows Rahm continually tries to overshadow him .......Enamuel arrogantly stands with his hands on hips for official pics---just so he will stand out from the crowd. And it is a message----"you guys will have to deal with me--not Obama."

The knuckle episode is illustrative of a seriously disturbed sociopath. Pres Obama gets mega-attention, so Rahm cracks his knuckles to assure everyone and himself that he is The One. The guy NEEDS to be in the limelight.....he needs ego-boosting at all times.

It's nauseasting to think this guy was in our Congress.This two-bit guy is sophmoric....even without wearing his tutu.

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Is Rahm attempting to coverup his true activties in the IDF? Or could it be that the Mossad does not allow public disclosure of their agents' activties?

THE LATEST VERSION ---Rahm never served in the IDF he volunteered for Sar'el, which is a three week, civilians-assist-the-IDF program, where they live on an IDF base, wash dishes, repair machinery, do laundry, etc.

RAHM GAVE OUT THIS VERSION--- He was a civilian volunteer assisting the Israel Defense Forces during the 1991 Gulf War, repairing truck brakes in one of Israel's northern bases.

RAHM ALSO GAVE OUT THIS VERSION---During the 1991 Gulf War, Israel was asked by the United States not to militarily respond to the Scud missiles that Iraq was hurling at them..........and Rahm was in Israel to assist them in not responding militarily.

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Obaba can settle these "Islamic smears" ONCE AND FOR ALL. Unbelievably Obama has not responded to the "Islamic smears" Rahm has had to endure. Obama should obtain copies of Rahm's paychecks to demonstrate that payments to Rahm were NOT coming out of the IDF military budget. Cause if they did, that would wipeout Rahm's US citizenship.

Ever-helpful Rahm also orchestrated the Clinton-era Arafat/Rabin Oslo handshake on the WH lawn. Here's a helpful suggestion for Rahm: At the next inevitable WH peace confab, Rahm should invite the man with 289 wives-----the guy takes a wife everytime Israel goes to the peace table.

[adorno]

"We won the election, we wrote the bill," said Pelosi

So, Pelosi and the democrats won the election, and they wrote the bill, and, they got it passed in the house.

And, with not a single republican voting for the democrat's bill, it will be a debacle which can only be blamed on the democrats. The democrats will be the sole owners of the coming disaster.

With the huge "porkulus" bill which is destined to be a disaster, the republicans stand a very good chance to regain many seats in 2010 and very possibly retake the house and senate.

However, the republicans can throw away their chances of being the majority again by giving in to a modified package from the senate. If they don't hold together and vote unanimously again against the package, then their hopes will remain very distant for retaking congress.

[Uncle Miltie]

that he’s Obama’s chief of staff, the Republicans have him to poke at for at least four years.

Presuming he isn't indicted and convicted for bribery regarding Zero's seat in the Senate. Blago named him as a co-conspirator yesterday.

[Uncle Miltie]

“Capo Rahm”

[Liz]

"That tutued, plie-ing fairy of Obama's better not get anywhere near me."

[HomeschoolMomma]

It would be nice if Blagojevich brought Rahm down, but I'm not counting on it.

Blago is going TOO EASY!!! He's got to be up to something.

He knows how politics works and I think he's playing the game. Just wondering how long before the Kenyan mob shuts him up.

[Question_Assumptions]

Frankly, I'm hoping Blago sings and we get to see Rahm in prison orange. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[Canedawg]

I think more and more Americans are going to regret having this infantile, partisan schmuck as their POTUS.

[RocketMan1]

Principles?!!Principles?!We don’t need no steenkin’ Principles!!! We hate Rahm. THAT’S GONNA win a LOT of COngressional Districts for the Pubbies in 2010:) NOT

Going against Rahm and Pelosi WILL win a lot of Congressional districts in middle America. They are consistently wrong. As to "principles" .. I am just glad that they may finally be finding out that they have some!

[dcwusmc]

Why couldn’t they have done the right thing when they were the majority? Then they were worse than the Rats in increasing the rate and amount of spending. No, they get no credit from me.