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Boehner Assails Emanuel Pick
House Minority Whip John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement decrying the appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., as President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff. “This is an ironic choice for a President-elect who has promised to change Washington,...
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Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
abcnews.go.com — President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of... the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," ... (more) Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
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blogs.cqpolitics.com — As I wrote yesterday , it's hard to depict Representative Rahm Emanuel, who has been picked by... President-elect Barack Obama to be his White House chief of staff, as an agent of change. After all, Emanuel has been a Washington player for years and, ... (more) Is Rahm Emanuel Right for Obama's White House of Change?
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Does John Boehner Have a Point about Rahm Emanuel?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... Does Republican Representative John Boehner, the in-the-dumps House minority leader, have a point when he criticizes President-elect Barack Obama for tapping Democratic Representative Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff? Boehner says: ...

Atlantic's Brownstein Rebukes Boehner for Criticizing Obama Pick of Emanuel
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Appearing on MSNBC shortly after 1 p.m. EST, The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein rebuked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for drawing a legitimate criticism of President-elect Obama's choice of what he described as the "sharp-elbowed" Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) as his White House chief-of-staff (see video embedded at right). Brownstein hit Boehner for "reflexive partisanship" for this rather mild statement: This is an ironic choice for a President-elect who has ...

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