Rahm Emanuel to be Obama Chief of Staff
QandO — Good start at cleaning up Washington, introducing "new" politics and bridging the political divide. Name a hyper-partisan Washington insider as your Chief of Staff.

Emanuel Accepts Obama's Job Offer
Politics Daily — ... Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), has accepted the post of White House chief of staff in Barack Obama's administration, Politico is reporting this afternoon, citing Democratic officials. ...

Emanuel Accepts
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), "a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has accepted the post of White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama," reports Politico. ...

Politico: Emanuel Gets to "Yes"
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Mike Allen and Patrick O'Connor cite Democratic officials saying the Illinois congressman has decided to join the Obama White House team as chief of staff. Comes after he spent some time mulling the position. ...

Emanuel accepts White House job
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... will send a signal that Obama is eager to work with Congress, and plans a swift launch of an aggressive agenda that will focus on the economy, taxes, energy, education and health care. "The chief" is sometimes known as the second most powerful person in Washington. The job has vast authority, as the boss of the hundreds of aides who work directly for the president, a public face of the administration on television, and a negotiator and salesman on Capitol Hill. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15371.html

Obama Appoints Angry Partisan Hack As Press Secretary
JammieWearingFool — No, not Keith Olberman, who I's sure is crushed. Two days in to the wonderful era of hopenchange and we have hatchet man Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff and now this hack ...

Breaking News: Rahm Emanuel Confirmed
The Latest on Air America — ... post of White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, Democratic officials tell Politico. The selection is the first major public decision by Obama since he was elected in a landslide on Tuesday. The announcement will send a signal that Obama is eager to work with Congress and plans a swift launch of an aggressive agenda that will focus on the economy, taxes, energy, education and health care. More here...

Slime Barely Passing For Human Accepts Chief Of Staff Position
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... M. Daley. Emanuel served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton. After leaving the White House, Emanuel returned to Chicago to serve as a managing director at a leading global investment bank. “Emanuel graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981, and received a Master’s Degree in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. He is a resident of Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood where he and his wife are raising three children.” (Politico)

Emanuel accepts, will be COS
Political Animal — EMANUEL ACCEPTS, WILL BE COS.... One major staffing decision down , several thousand to go. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has accepted the post of White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, Democratic officials tell Politico. The selection is the first major public decision by Obama since he was elected in a landslide on Tuesday. The announcement will send a signal that Obama is eager to work with Congress and plans a swift launch of an aggressive agenda that will focus on the economy, taxes, ...

Rahm Emanuel Accepts Post As President-Elect Obama’s Chief Of Staff
The Moderate Voice — ... to the U.S.-Israel relationship … that was never true,” said Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council. Forman said Obama’s selection of Emanuel helps build confidence that the United States will be vigilant in responding to any threats to Israel posed by Iran. “Rahm has certainly never been accused of being too naive or not decisive in his analysis of these types of issues,” Forman said. The Politico: The announcement will send a signal that Obama is eager to ...

Dispatches from Chicago
Swampland — ... Apparently, Rahm has accepted the chief-of-staff job, no really this time – at least we think. Robert Gibbs will be Obama's press secretary. And Fortune.com reports that Larry Summers is in the lead for Treasury Secretary. Tomorrow Obama will meet with his economic advisors and hold his first press conference as president-elect, where we think he'll make more staffing announcements. So far this transition is going at lightening pace compared to Clinton, who didn't make his first appointments until Dec. 10, 1992, and George ...

Obama White House Already Beginning To Take Shape
Comments from Left Field — ... Coming in as the man Obama will look to to make sure that all the trains run on time is Congressman Rahm Emanuel who didn’t take very long at all to accept the offer as White House Chief of Staff.  This strikes me as an exceptionally wise choice for Obama as the conductor of his administrative troops; Emanual not only has experience and a deep understanding of how the Hill works, but is also a veteran of the White House itself as the Illinois representative served as a staffer in the Clinton administration. ...

Robert Gibbs Will Be Obama’s Press Secretary
PoliGazette — ... If true - our report from yesterday saying that Rahm Emanuel was reported to have accepted the job of Chief of Staff was denied later by Emanuel himself yet today the news came that he did indeed accept the offer, albeit not yesterday but today - this would once again be an indication that Obama’s administration may be less bipartisan, moderate, civil and honest than many moderates and centrists hoped. ...

The Beginning of Reason
DownWithTyranny! — ... that I felt my brain would give out under the strain. Let me celebrate with Paul Krugman and all other thinking people in these United States that intelligence might again be valued and that critical thinking and competence might be employed in solving our day to day problems. Perhaps we can invest in a government that listens to its people who just demonstrated that they are more than able to participate. And, for once the system was responsive to our efforts. This election does not signify a battle that is over. It signifies that we can now begin the work. We can begin ...

Obama’s Attack Dog
Jules Crittenden — ... [image] Rahm Emanuel takes the Chief of Staff job. It’s supposed to be a sign Obama will govern from the middle. I think it’s a sign Obama will get Pelosi and Reid to bark to his tune.  The guy’s been in the House since 2002 and was already No. 4 Dem, being groomed for speaker and credited with engineering the 2006 takeover. Politico . Steve Verdon, Outside the Beltway, channels Volokh on Emanuel’s vision for a new contract with America. Guess what, America does all the heavy lifting in this contract, with Verdon correctly veiws as a “ ...

What the Rahm Emanuel selection means
The Next Right — ... Obama's selection of Rahm Emanuel to be Chief of Staff sends a very important signal about what we can expect from an Obama administration.  Powerline's ...

An Early Look at Obama’s Appointments
The Moderate Voice — ... , we took a look at some of the speculation around President Elect Obama’s appointments for his cabinet and staff. I’d like to summarize some of our discussion and add to it with some suggestions and analysis of where we stand so far. The first choice, of course, was Barack’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff. He’s certainly qualified, but he represents the sharp elbows of partisan division which have characterized Congress for far too long and stands in denial of Obama’s goals of a post-partisan administration. Someone with a greater ...

Obama names Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff. So what does it mean?
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings Clintonite and Congressman Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama's offer to be his chief of staff. Like David Corn and Ezra Klein, I'm ambivalent about it. On the one hand, Emanuel hasn't exactly been an ally of the liberal-progressive elements in the Democratic Party. On the other hand, he's a tough, hard-nosed insider and aggressive partisan with White House experience. So what does his appointment mean? What does it signal with respect to the Obama ...

Obama Names Rahm Emanuel His Chief of Staff. So What Does It Mean?
The Moderate Voice — Clintonite and Congressman Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama’s offer to be his chief of staff. Like David Corn and Ezra Klein, I’m ambivalent about it. On the one hand, Emanuel hasn’t exactly been an ally of the liberal-progressive elements in the Democratic Party. On the other hand, he’s a tough, hard-nosed insider and aggressive partisan with White House experience. So what does his appointment mean? What does it signal with respect to the Obama presidency? – Is Obama signalling that he prefers centrist Clintonism to ...