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Rahm Playing Hamlet On Chief Of Staff Offer Rahm Emanuel is expressing some serious reluctance about whether he'll accept the position of White House chief of staff: "I do know something about the White House and I have children now. I have a family." The tradeoff for Emanuel is that if he ...
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Talking Points Memo — ... The number one quality in a chief of staff is a recognition that it's not about him -- a quality Rahm "Hamlet" Emanuel isn't exhibiting. That and the day's other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup. ...

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