Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Rahm under fire

 Disgruntled Left

Boned Jello

Interesting WSJ article today - Rahm Draws Fire From Left as Obama Falters.  I have a hard time wrapping my mind around Rahm Emanuel being too conservative, which says more about the Soros, Inc infrastructure doing the howling. 

President Barack Obama's liberal backers have a long list of grievances. The Guantanamo Bay prison is still open. Health care hasn't been transformed. And Wall Street banks are still paying huge bonuses.

But they are directing their anger less at Mr. Obama than at the man who works down the hall from him. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, they say, is the prime obstacle to the changes they thought Mr. Obama's election would bring.

The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul.

"F—ing retarded," Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.

The left has gotten some of what it wanted: a ban on torture, an expansion of children's health insurance and an equal-pay law for women. But liberal activists say those and other measures add up to far less than what they expected.

A White House official tells Playbook: "Rahm is not an ideologue; he is a pragmatist. And he has led this administration in accomplishing a series of important progressive achievements that languished for years before President Obama was elected: expanding SCHIP, tobacco regulation, credit card reforms, the Ledbetter Equal Pay Act.” 
I can just hear Obama tomorrow night, rallying support by crowing about the hard fought SCHIP victory.  I might actually watch the SOTU this year.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not watching that lying POS, teleprompter-addicted horse's ass or listen to one more goddamned hissing S!

Anonymous said...

I think You're right (again), Rodger. It'll be fun to watch Obama's STFU speech - I mean SOTU* speech this year, just to see him squirming around trying to justify his sorry existence.
GrinfilledCelt
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*Did You see Tuesday's DBD? Not That There's Anything Wrong With That.

Anonymous said...

Anon @1/27/10 1:28 AM

He won't be squirming around, he BELIEVES. After all, Clintoon didn't have HIM around in 1994, and that's why he lost the House, etc. HE is the ONE. You have to BELIEVE.

T'ain't no squirming goin' on. Just figgurin' ways to get that last vote or wriggle around the rules, and get HIS agenda passed.

tomw

Spunky Texan said...

Just rememeber that anything he says that seems to move him towards the center is only smoke and mirrors.

YOU LIE!

Kind of like the SOTU that Clintoon gave after the lewinski debacle and the finger waving and lip biting.

Spunky Texan said...

Oh, and I can summarize it for you:

Let Me be clear.

It's Bush's fault.

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