There he was Friday afternoon in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), tossing spending programs overboard until the package was light enough to support the heavy doubts of three Republican senators.
And as negotiations began Tuesday night, he was back in the familiar confines of Reid’s leadership suite. Emanuel has returned to his old stomping grounds at each step of the process, cutting deals and holding hands to keep Democrats together and win enough Republican support to get the package through the Senate.
In doing so, Emanuel has engaged in the legislative process more than any other chief of staff anyone can remember.
It’s no wonder that Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), discussing the stimulus this week, felt compelled to remind an interviewer, “Rahm Emanuel is no longer a member of the House of Representatives.”
Chicago patronage politics goes national. All that is needed is a big pot of money for the payoffs.
Maybe Gregg got a “whiff” of this guy in action and said to himself “I’ve got to get the hell out of here”, LOL.
"Follow the yellow brick road."
FOB FJB ballerina fairy.
Emanuel has the dead eyes of a cold blooded killer.
Rahm only has 9 finger prints.
Wasnt his father in a radical leftist group?
This coming from my congress-critter, former Gary Condit staffer who jumped into the primary when it became apparent that Condit could not be re-elected.
Cardoza quickly snuggled up into Pelosi's lap and passed all the necessary requirements to be an official lap-dog.
"Sit, Dennis"
"Speak, Dennis"
"Roll Over, Dennis"
Good Boy, Dennis!
Doesn’t he have his home in Chicago listed as a charity and he pays no property taxes? The only donation made by the charity was to his kids private school. How do you spell tuition?
Congress Doesn’t Have Stimulus Bill, But Lobbyists Do? [Mark Hemingway]
U.S. News:
We’re receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can’t get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What’s more, staffers are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: “K Street has the bill, or chunks of it, already, and the congressional offices don’t. So, the Hill is getting calls from the press (because it’s leaking out) asking us to confirm or talk about what we know—but we can’t do that because we haven’t seen the bill. Anyway, peeps up here are sort of a combo of confused and like, ‘Is this really happening?’” Reporters pressing for details, meanwhile, are getting different numbers from different offices, especially when seeking the details of specific programs.
Tax evasion is easier to swallow when the crook who’s doing it arranges for a great big gov’t kickback.
I hate that little tutu clad fag.
Well I DON’T trust him. He has a really sneaky face and demeanor.
I just finished another round of e-mails to my Senators and a few from other states. Tomorrow - early — will go another one asking who they serve — the people or Rahm
Emanuel?
"Yippy, I get to run the census."