politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/6/2008
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Emanuel, left will be Obama's chief of staff.
(CNN) — Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a former Clinton administration aide, has accepted the position of President-elect Obama's chief of staff, a Democratic aide tells CNN.
House Minority Leader John Boehner cricized the choice of Emanuel — the man known for his tough-minded approach and widely credited with engineering [...]
Rahm For Chief Of Staff? Not Just Yet...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 10/31/2008 — The AP's David Espo apparently has a scoop : Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel
about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said
Thursday, looking ahead as the marathon presidential race entered ...
Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff
blogs.abcnews.com 11/5/2008 — Previous | Main Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff November 05, 2008 8:30 AM ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a ...
Obama to Name Napolitano, Peña, Daley to Transition Team
blogs.abcnews.com 11/5/2008 — In addition to the three people who will be running President-elect Barack Obama's transition team -- former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Obama family friend/businesswoman Valier Jarrett, and Obama campaign chief of staff Pete Rouse, as ...
Rahm Emanuel Named or Not Named Obama Chief of Staff
redstate.com 11/6/2008 — Meet The "New Politics," Same As The Old Politics
The first major personnel announcement of the new Obama
Administration is out, and the word is that
Congressman Rahm Emanuel has been offered the post of Obama's chief
of staff . The ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/6/2008 — 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 ...
Rahm Emanuel as WH Chief of Staff. Whaddya think?
dailykos.com 11/7/2008 — By now you've all heard the rumors, and the rumors have turned into solid news reports: Rahm Emanuel has been offered the job of White House Chief of Staff. There are a couple different ways to evaluate this, of course. Rahm gets mixed reviews ...
What Rahm Says About An Obama Administration —
Open Left - Front Page
I don't like Rahm Emanuel becoming Obama's chief of staff, but I also don't think it would have mattered if he chose someone else. If Obama wanted Rahm as Chief of Staff, but Rahm had declined or been denied the slot via outside pressure, then you can be sure Obama would have simply sought ...
Obama On Rahm, And Rahm On Rahm —
Hotline On Call Part Deux
Statement from President-elect Barack Obama about his selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel as WH chief of staff:
“I am pleased to announce that my good friend, Congressman Rahm Emanuel, has agreed to serve as my White House chief of staff. I announce this appointment first because the Chief of ...
Emanuel Accepts Chief of Staff Position —
Drudge Retort
Rep. Rahm Emanuel on Thursday accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to become his White House chief of staff, stepping down from his post as the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Emanuel Accepts Chief of Staff Job —
Weekly Standard Blog
Meet the bad cop to Obama's good: Democratic officials say Barack Obama's fellow Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel has agreed to be White House chief of staff.
One of Obama's first decisions as president-elect was to ask the Illinois congressman to run his White House staff. Emanuel accepted Thursday ...
Oh, The Irony —
Daily Kos
Here's Karl Rove, on the speculation that Rahm Emanuel would be Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Well, the Chief of Staff, there is no corporate role, but in the Chief of Staff in the White House is an honest broker. When the leader of the opposition Party in the House or Senate calls up ...
POLITICS: Emanuel In Or Not In As Chief of Staff —
Baseball Crank
The first major personnel announcement of the new Obama Administration is out, and the word is that Congressman Rahm Emanuel has been offered the post of Obama's chief of staff . The announcement didn't exactly go off smoothly, as this NBC report shows :
From NBC's Andrea Mitchell A senior ...
Transition Time —
The Stump
Obama's camp has announced who the key staff will be in the transition phase. The effort will be headed up by three co-chairs: Valerie Jarrett , former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, and Obama's Senate chief of staff Pete Rouse. A 12-person advisory board that includes, among others, ...
Chief of Staff —
TalkLeft
MSNBC is reporting that Rep. Rahm Emanuel has agreed to act as Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Some see Emanuel as one of "the greedy corporate types who have ruined our economy, if not the country" while others complain that Emanuel is an "abrasive, vindictive and partisan Democratic ...
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, ...
Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff Spot —
Politics Daily
President-elect Obama (hey, I like the sound of that!) is laying low for a few days but he has made one key decision: to offer the job of his chief of staff to Rahm Emanuel . A congressman from Obama's home state of Illinois and the number three Democrat in the House, Emanuel hasn't officially ...
A Good Fit —
Suburban Guerrilla
I can’t stand Rahm Emanuel, and that’s why I think he might actually be great as Obama’s chief of staff . (Plus, he did the same job for Clinton and I’m sure he’s learned a few things since then.)
Chief of staff is one of those jobs that requires a STRONG ...
A Tent That Stretches at the Seams —
Booman Tribune
Maybe some of you don't know this, but the chief of staff to the president is, in some ways, a more powerful figure than the president himself. The chief of staff has control over what the president knows and who he sees. Some of the highest members of the cabinet can muscle their way in to to ...
Rahm for Chief of Staff? —
ArchPundit
Two things:
1) If he wanted it and it was leaked by someone close, they just lost it for him. I’m sure he’ll understand.
2) The most even keeled campaign ever is going to transition into a Chief of Staff who you need an animal tranquilizer to calm down?
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