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 senior Republican, speaking on the phone in ...
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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thedailybeast.com —
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 ...
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Sticking It to Rahm
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STICKING IT TO RAHM. “Rahm told the president that he can take care of Congress . . . He said, ‘T…
Instapundit —
... STICKING IT TO RAHM. “Rahm told the president that he can take care of Congress . . . He said, ‘These guys will roll over, they’re afraid of being called the party of No. Believe me, I know them. They’ll be easy.’” Plus this: ...
Rahm on the Republicans: "These guys will roll over, they're afraid of being called the party of No. Believe me, I know them. They'll be easy."
Althouse —
"One prominent Republican" on Obama: "The president was patient, he gave us plenty of time. But he didn't convince anyone. After he left, we looked at each other, and said, 'How can they stick him with this garbage?'" The stimulus stimulates stimulating talk. ...
McCain: I don’t see any GOP votes for the stimulus in the Senate
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... this is a bluff — the Democrats aren’t going to humiliate Obama with a close vote on his signature legislation — but if they strip enough crap out of the sandwich, the decision to vote against it will be significantly harder for the GOP than it is now. On the other hand, who cares? The bill’s bound to pass anyway, so anything that can be done to de-pork it is all to the good. Note, by the way, how careful Republicans are being to blame the bill’s failure on the House, on Pelosi, on Rahm Emanuel (“Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back”) — anyone but Obama. ...
Conservative Keynesians
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... my thoughts on the stimulus package vote this week crystallized a little - they can do that when a bunch of feisty undergraduates are asking good questions. On the one hand, I'm delighted that the GOP has rediscovered fiscal conservatism after a long period of Bush insanity. On the other hand, they may have chosen the one moment in recent history when fiscal conservatism could be disastrous. Yes, I can understand why Obama's bizare idea of having Rahm Emmanuel deal with the House GOP back-fired (shouldn't he just run the White House?). But I also see that Obama won the last ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 1/28/2009 — This is Love-a-Gop Day around the White House.
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Seems the Republicans don't like Rahm :
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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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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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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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:: About Rahm ::
house.gov 11/5/2008 — Rahm Emanuel, 48, is a leader in Congress committed to addressing the challenges facing families across the nation. Since taking the oath of office in 2003, he has been a strong, effective voice for Chicago in Congress. At the beginning of his second ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/23/2008 — Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel has a reputation to live up to or down, depending on your politics.
The White House chief of staff-designate for the newly-elected president Barack Obama is known respectfully as, well, a gut-fighter, even for the ...
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