Rahm Just Ain't The Man

A powerful take down piece on Rahm Emanuel. I despise this man, and have from his DCCC days. As many already know from my posts about him, it was when Obama appointed him as his chief of staff that I became concerned that "Change We Can Believe In" was going to turn into "Change That Just Ain't Coming."

From Dan Froomkin:

The latest toxic meme to spread across the pages of my once-beloved Washington Post is that President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the one reasonable man in the White House.

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But Emanuel is not the would-be savior of this presidency. For one thing, there really isn't that much daylight between him and his boss, or between him and his top White House colleagues. Had things gone even more his way, it's possible that he would have squelched a few more of what few bursts of idealism and principle survived Inauguration. But people looking for the reasons why the Obama presidency has not lived up to its promise won't find the answer amid the minor rifts between key players. Nor will they find the answer in how well or poorly this White House has played the game of politics. The fact is that after a campaign that appealed so successfully to idealism, Obama hired a bunch of saboteurs of hope and change.

Rahm was simply their chief of staff. And now, this hypercompetitive bantam rooster is attempting to blame others for what went wrong. That's evidently so important to him that he's trying to take a victory lap around the wreckage of what was once such a promising presidency.

The piece is an analysis of the cruel and unusual punishment of Rahm Emanuel's infliction on this country, and how we can thank him for sucking the ideological optimism out of the 2008 election of Obama.