downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 1/27/2009
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About a month or so ago an old friend, know of the antipathy and disdain with which I hold Rahm Emanuel, asked me if I would have voted for Obama even if I knew he was going to appoint Emanuel his chief of staff. Before I blurted out, "No!," I said, "Well there's nothing that would have ever ...
gawker.com - 2/3/2009
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gawker.com —
He's the cheapskate of staff. Rahm Emanuel ,
Barack Obama's right-hand man, lives in a basement apartment...
on Capitol Hill rented to him by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro . Just one problem: He's not allowed to live there. That's what private ...
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Rahm Emanuel's Illegal D.C. Basement Rental
swamppolitics.com - 2/2/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by John McCormick and Dan Mihalopoulos White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is interested in potentially...
returning to Chicago someday to reclaim the congressional seat he held until a month ago, a candidate running to replace him said Sunday. ...
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Rahm Emanuel back to Congress?
thedailybeast.com - 1/30/2009
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From their shared loathing of Rahm Emanuel to
the insurgency led by the minority leader ( he...
took us by the throat ), the inside story of why not a single House Republican supported the president s stimulus package. "Rahm, you don't waste a crisis," a ...
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Sticking It to Rahm
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Howie Klein: Republicans In Congress Get Behind Limbaugh's Call For Obstructionism & Failure
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Unfortunately, more than a few Republican members of Congress are more in sync with Limbaugh than they are with the American people, not just the die-hard extremists like Jim DeMint (R-SC), David Diapers Vitter (R-LA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) but even more mainstream conservatives for whom the tug of bareknuckled partisanship-- and a preference that America actually fail rather than seeing Obama succeed-- is irresistible.
Today Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who has always had a special relationship with Republicans, is meeting with mainstream conservatives on ...
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pajamasmedia.com 11/7/2008 — November 06, 2008 RICK MORAN on the Rahm Emanuel appointment. Actually, I think this makes sense for Obama. Emanuel will serve as Obama's hatchet-man and Dr. No, but the main targets will be Congressional Democrats and Democratic interest groups. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 1/30/2009 — Seems the Republicans don't like White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel : "We won the election, we wrote the bill," said Pelosi as many times as she could to an open microphone. But what was happening away from the microphone made it even ...
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Seems the Republicans don't like Rahm :
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realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com 11/7/2008 — A stroll down memory lane in honor of Barack Obama's new chief of staff.
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