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thehill.com - 1/29/2009

Pelosi dismisses need for bipartisanship

— thehill.com — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn’t come to Washington to be “bipartisan”, one day after... shuttling through an $819 economic stimulus bill without a single Republican vote. “I didn’t come here to be partisan, I didn’t come here to be ... (more) Pelosi dismisses need for bipartisanship

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gawker.com - 2/3/2009

Rahm Emanuel's Illegal D.C. Basement Rental

— 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 ... (more) Rahm Emanuel's Illegal D.C. Basement Rental

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thedailybeast.com - 1/30/2009

Sticking It to Rahm

— thedailybeast.com — 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 ... (more) Sticking It to Rahm

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Rahm Emanuel

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I Am Become Rahm — Destroyer of Bipartisanship
Firedoglake — ... photo by nmfbihop Seems the Republicans don't like Rahm: "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 ...

Jane Hamsher: I Am Become Rahm -- Destroyer of Bipartisanship
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... 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 easier for the Republicans to hold together. All they had to do was bring up Rahm Emanuel. "Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back," said a senior Republican. Really?  Get out of here.  Rahm wasn't interested in working with Republicans?  Who could have ...

Despite the Spin, “Recovery” Bill a Huge Gift to Republicans [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom — ... Emanuel, working with his old boss and ally, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made it easy for the Republicans to resist . Every penny in the more than 600-page bill came from a Democratic wish list of pork that dated back to the beginning of the Bush administration. “They were limited the last two years by the White House keeping firm on the cap for each bill,” a congressional source reported to me, “and Nancy Pelosi told them all to send their ideas to David Obey [chairman of the House Appropriations Committee], and he just put them together in one great big earmark.” “We ...

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Sister Toldjah — Part of the reason for the House GOP revolt on the stimulus bill was to “stick it” to Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Steps Up To Take Credit For Stimulus Bill — Let the Revisionist History Begin
Firedoglake — ... January 29:  “Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back,” said a senior Republican. Pay close attention to this part, because if you think Rahm did a great job "tossing spending programs overboard" (like children's nutrition), he's just getting started: ...