jessejacksonjr.org - 11/5/2008
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August 20, 2006 Two lifelong Democrats who have spent most of the last 20 years navigating Washington, D.C., politics, have come out with a new book, The Plan, a bold agenda for how Americans can change America with five strategies that can be put into motion immediately. Rep. Rahm Emanuel was ...
blogs.cqpolitics.com - 11/6/2008
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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, ...
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Is Rahm Emanuel Right for Obama's White House of Change?
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Rahm Emanuel: Time for a new contract with America.
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... this local congressman. The picture that emerges is very consistent: very smart, very substantive, and very partisan – as one person put it, a man with a sharp mind and sharp elbows. I doubt that Obama could find a more competent chief of staff, someone who would be part administrative director and part Karl Rove. We know a lot about Barack Obama’s agenda, but what about Rahm Emanuel’s? He laid out his “Plan for America” in a 2006 book with Bruce Reed. Excerpt from Emanuel and Reed’s The Plan/Big Ideas for America : America has plenty of unfinished business, and all of the ...
All Your Labor Are Belong to Us
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... . Excerpt from Emanuel and Reed’s The Plan/Big Ideas for America : America has plenty of unfinished business, and all of the reforms we’d like to see — some of which appear in this book — would make for a very long list. But if we’re going to turn the country around, we need a bold agenda that can be counted off on one hand: 1. A new social contract — universal citizen service, universal college access, universal retirement savings, and universal children’s health care — that makes clear what you can do for your country and what your country can do for you. 2. A return to ...
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