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Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?
small dead animals —
... begins! Your sickening unAmerican traitorous, racist, money-grubbing, torturing, hateful ideology got struck a death blow and you and your fellow jackal-blowhards are left writhing on the floor, gasping for breath as the final death tremors subside and your bodies stiffen into rigour mortis. We heart4848.gif you too! (Related) Posted by Kate at November 5, 2008 12:30 PM
So Funny.
INSTAPUTZ —
Because he's such a magnanimous wingnut, Yuval Levin is offering advice to President-Elect Obama on how to pick a chief-of-staff: The White House chief of staff is not a chief strategist or a chief advocate. He is a manager of people and of process. Above all else, he sets the tone internally, and shapes the president’s decision process and the feel of the upper tiers of the administration. Obama is especially in need of someone who will lead him to decisions, because he appears to be intensely averse to making difficult choices—which is the essence of what ...
NBC: Rahm Emanuel accepts position as Obama’s chief of staff
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , together at last. Yuval Levin reads the writing on the wall : He is smart and tough. But he has been, in both positions [as Clinton staffer and House member], a vicious graceless partisan: narrow, hectic, unremittingly aggressive, vulgar, and impatient. Those who have worked for and with him come away impressed but not inspired, and generally not loyal. The White House chief of staff is not a chief strategist or a chief advocate. He is a manager of people and of process. Above all else, he sets the tone internally, and shapes the president’s decision process and the feel of ...
MSNBC: Rahm Emanuel Accepts Chief of Staff Offer
PoliGazette —
... Emanuel is a highly partisan and ideological Democrat, who has a long record of bullying opponents into submission, and throwing swear words around whenever agitated (which happens rather often). ...
Some initial jottings on "what next?"
Stubborn Facts —
I join Pat's last two posts in full, as I do Peter Kirsanow's post here, Scott Johnson's post here, Yuval Levin's posts here and here, and Jim Geraghty's posts here and here. I should also note Chris Beam's post here,and reitereate what we said after the last election (a memo we mentioned here): everyone in the House Republican leadership must go at the end of this Congress. A line must be drawn under the Bush-DeLay-Frist era; the voters are going to keep on punishing us until we grasp that much.
Dan McLaughlin ...
Krikorian: Im a Strong Believer You Have to Obey the Law
Articles on National Review Online —
... medicine and lowering sea levels. And whatever candidate Obama said about amnesty before the stock market meltdown, a proposal by President Obama to amnesty millions of illegals during the worst economic situation in decades would be a gift to the Republican minority in Congress. Obama s selection of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff actually bodes well for immigration. It s not that he s a nice guy, like the Josh Lyman character on West Wing that he inspired. As Yuval Levin recently wrote at The Corner, Emanuel is a vicious graceless partisan: narrow, hectic, ...
More Hypocrisy from the One
GayPatriot —
... issue while he was in the Illinois Senate or representing Illinois in the U.S. Senate. And while he had friends on the Republican side of the aisle, he never parted company with his Democratic colleagues on any major issue, always marching in lockstep with his partisan caucus.
If he doesn’t approach things from a partisan perspective, why then did he tap primarily partisan hacks to serve on his White House staff, picking a particularly ruthless partisan for the most important job (after his own) in the West Wing, Chief of Staff?
Obama won last ...
