latimes.com - 11/10/2008
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Point: Scott Lilly David, no one can deny that Rep. Rahm Emanuel is a hard-edged, in-your-face kind of politician. Most members of Congress will attest to that fact -- but most will also tell you that Emanuel practices his brand of politics in a purely bipartisan manner. He has exposed his rough ...
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Reason Writers Around Town: Dave Weigel on Obama's Future Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
Hit & Run —
In the first installment in a week-long L.A. Times dust-up with Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Associate Editor David Weigel examines Barack Obama's selection of former Clinton official Rahm Emanuel for evidence of a "new tone" in Washington. Read their exchange here.
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Obama And Free Trade
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A closet NAFTA-fan? Dave Weigel asks Scott Lilly, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a question: Emanuel is good at beating Republicans, but how confident are you that he's going to bring about the center-left political realignment that organizations like yours were set up to make? The NAFTA fight proved that Emanuel is a free trader, and as Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee reportedly told us (by way of leaked Canadian intel) during the primaries, the president-elect's interest in rolling back trade deals began and ended with winning ...
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