There is talk of him one day running for POTUS..the POS he is may win
Emanuel was 100% on board with Obama care, but he cautioned against the strategy of pushing it through all at once. He preferred the incremental approach (the frog in warming water idea).
A case could be made that Godfather was right, because 1) by forcing it through on bi-partisan lines, it assured that at least 50% of the population would be against it from the get go and 2) the bungled implementation has guaranteed public sentiment will be against ANY large scale government program for at least the near future.