Rahm Emmanuel has got to GO!

[WhiteTara]

We need to start a Remove Rahm campaign. He is poison.

[vi5]

1. Agreed.....

I 100% agree.

[Why Syzygy]

2. What did he do now?

Take your pick I guess.

http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=rahm

[SIMPLYB1980]

3. Nuts. nt

[bigwillq]

4. DLC members should not be

part of a supposedly progressive administration.

[still_one]

16. gee, thanks for telling us the rules who should or shouldn't be included /nt

[sharp_stick]

19. Who gave you the idea it was

a progressive administration? Obama and everyone around him have always been and likely always will be just a bit left of center. The myth of the Progressive administration has been pounded into peoples heads by the RW pundits and it seems that a lot of folks took it hook line and sinker.

[bigwillq]

32. Well, you would think

that a Democratic administration would be progressive. I think they're all right of center, thank you very much.

[Peregrine Took]

30. For me, they ruin Democrat Underground.

Many times I come here but then leave after a short time as I can't stand all the moderate (weasel) and DLC people.

[JamesA1102]

69. How sad for poor little you.

Being forced to listen to people who don't agree with you 100% in lockstep. And all this time I thought being liberal meant keeping an open mind.

[dionysus]

71. you don't understand. if you don't see things the way they do, you're not a "real liberal(tm)"

[Orsino]

57. Well, the Administration isn't even supposedly progressive...

...but yeah, DLCers tend to smell up the place, generally acting to retard progress and obfuscate the discourse.

[JamesA1102]

68. Yes let's be the party of exclusion instead of inclusion.

Then we'll be just as bad as the republicans.

[inna]

5. agreed.

[Political Tiger]

6. That's funny...I thought the president got to choose his Chief of Staff?

I didn't realize it was up to DU to pick Obama's Chief of Staff............

[villager]

7. yet when that CoS routinely negates the work and wishes of the majority that put the President

there, it becomes problematic.

To say the least.

Then again, I suppose we're free to choose another President, next time...

[dionysus]

24. good luck with all of that.. you fancy nader or the travelocity gnome dude?

[LooseWilly]

28. The Travelocity Garden Gnome! Brilliant!!

Voting for Cthulu just isn't as satisfying as it once was...



"Don't I look Progressive?..."

[villager]

37. hmmm.... a Dadaist reply!

n/t

[inna]

46. sickened by your constant pattern of personal attacks.

:thumbsdown:

[dionysus]

54. i'm sickened by all the people on the democratic board who don't support dems. to each their own.

and if you consider what i said a "personal attack" you got some really thin skin pal.

[jonnyblitz]

65. hardcore Obamabots are pretty vile. nt

[dionysus]

66. yeah, it's taught to us in our cult meetings, where we worship our messiah.

of course, you think anyone who doesn't rail against the admin 24/7 to be "vile".

[Captain Hilts]

62. He does what the prez wants him to do. He was Obama's first draft pick.

[skorpo]

9. Well said.

[still_one]

17. Wow, I didn't know that, thanks for the information /nt

[Jakes Progress]

39. That's funny....I thought it was up to the president to do the best for the people.

We hired him. He is supposed to do what we want. You don't serve him. He serves you. If he screws up with an appointment, we get to tell him what a dumb ass move he made and tell him to fix it.

The office is sacred, not the man.

[graywarrior]

47. Bwahahahahaha ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Are you kidding? Obama's expert advisors are all over this place. What's wrong with you...lol.

[Cha]

8. Then you'll need a contact addy won't you?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[Uzybone]

10. the negative nellies are out in full force tonight

it must have been a good day.

[polichick]

11. I do wonder what the prez thinks of Rahm's contribution at this point. nt

[Arkana]

12. Did Rahm kick your dog and call your mother a nasty name again?

[Peregrine Took]

31. He's a DLC'r - plain and simple.

Thanks but no thanks.

[Captain Hilts]

63. So is the president. nt

[JamesA1102]

70. Yes and there is no room for people with different idea and opinions

Just like the republicans would say.

[rollingrock]

76. There's no room for progressives in the Obama administration

which is why his Cabinet is filled with DLCers.

[Moochy]

59. Indirectly

He wants to kill the public option, and marginalize the left. Both of which will result in percapita more inuslted mothers and more dog abuse.

[styersc]

13. You and your buddy Glen Beck should get right on this.

.

[still_one]

14. Obama choose him. Whether he should go or not is up to his administration

You don't like the way things are being done, then you don't like what Obama is doing

bush was responsible for his own actions, and Obama is responsible for his own actions

An cheif of staff doesn't make the final decision, the President does

[Jennicut]

15. Obama is a big boy and the OP needs to blame Obama

This blame Rahm stuff for Obama's decisions that people are unhappy about cracks me up.

[still_one]

18. Of course I agree, and in spite of what the media may try to lead us to believe

the Obama administration may be extremely successful.

Remember, if nothing else, at least the Supreme Court will not be stacked with federalist society judges like Thomas and Alito, and that is significant

[Jennicut]

20. I think his speech tomorrow will be fantastic if its anything like his last two speeches

on Labor Day and today.
Hopefully, it will lead to more people backing the President and we get health care passed (meaningful health care).

[eminentcreativity]

21. Obama knew what he was choosing. Rahm Emanuel is the rule not the exception

Emanuel is no different than Obama's Goldman Sachs economic appointees, Obama's Republican Secretary of Transportation, and Obama's reappointments of Gates and Bernanke.

[polichick]

22. Unfortunately, that is true. nt

[dionysus]

26. yeah, they are all republicans in sheeps clothing...

:eyes:

[inna]

44. i second poster#22, and welcome to DU! :)

:hi:

[PopSixSquish]

23. Again, I'm Continually Amazed that DU Thinks that Rahm is the Only One Obama Listens To

I guess Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Peter Orzag, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett, etc just wander around the White House all day waiting their turn to walk Bo....

:shrug:

[dionysus]

25. you have to construct some kind of odd parallel dimension to think that stuff up.

then again, some of the excuses to get mad here make that look sane in comparison

[PopSixSquish]

27. Funniest of All That While Rahm and the President Have Been Friends for a Long Time

it's very well known in Washington that Axelrod and Gibbs are closer personally to the President and that Valerie Jarrett is the closest of all of them. She's one of the people Obama consulted when making the decision to run for President in the first place. She's also extremely close to Michelle...

[Jennicut]

36. Jarrett and he were always the closest...but nope, now Rahm is his best buddy

Leon Panetta and Bill Clinton were not exceptionally close but he did provide Clinton with some discipline.

[tammywammy]

67. Exactly n/t

[jwirr]

29. Is he going to pull a rabbit out of the hat with other issues like he did

on the public option? Where does he stand on the wars? global warming? habeas corpus? We should do our research now and not get surprised again.

[invictus]

33. K&R

[undeterred]

34. He seems to "love" all the right people.

[phleshdef]

35. I tend to think that Rahm's influence is way overestimated, but that pic with nancy is interesting.

[rollingrock]

77. Gross

what the heck are Rahm and Pelosi doing in that pic? Dry humping?

those two need to get a room, and resign while they're at it.

[tabbycat31]

38. agreed

and what's up with the unrecs on this thread?

[Jakes Progress]

40. Lots of DLC centrist support on DU.

They hated Bill, but they love the third way. (But you can't call it that.)

[Jennicut]

48. No...I can't stand Rahm but too much importance is placed on him

The real anger should be directed at the President...he is a big boy and can handle it. If Rahm was not COS anymore then suddenly Obama would abandon being more of a conciliator? Not really.

[Jakes Progress]

52. I like getting rid of Rahm as a symbol

that Obama is going to change.

I would be just as happy if Rahm started doing his junk yard dog act on the blue dogs and republicans instead of the base. That would indicate that he does answer to Obama and that Obama is going to start being more aggressive in acting for the good of the people.

Either way now is looks bad. Either Rahm is the guiding spirit behind Obama's right-lite or, even worse, Rahm is the lap dog carrying out Obama's agenda of continuing the bush legacy.

[Vidar]

41. Rahm belongs in jail, not the White House.

[JustGinger]

42. Why jail?

I guess I have really missed something

[donheld]

51. That's quite a stretch

[dionysus]

55. for what crime should he be imprisoned, sir? holy hyperbole batman.

[saltpoint]

58. Make a citizen's arrest, then, and do it right now. Don't hesitate.

March right into the Oval Office, bring the requisite law enforcement officials, and just haul his ass right out of there into the local slammer.

The rest of us will watch on the telly.

[emsimon33]

43. I was sick at heart when Obama selected him as chief of staff

and, you are right, he is nothing but poison. He poisoned the Democratic Party and he is poisoning the Obama presidency.

[dflprincess]

50. Maybe if the right wing goes after him

Obama will throw him under the bus to pacify them.

[Sebastian Doyle]

45. I see the Al From Basement Squad is on Unrec patrol tonight.

Paid to rig polls (and now unrecs) since the stalking horse false campaign of 2003 :eyes:

[tritsofme]

49. People are getting paid to unrec garbage posts like this?

Where is my check?

[ShortnFiery]

53. Yes! As a liberal democrat I'm sick and tired of being figuratively ...

forced to the back of the bus on EVERY MAJOR ISSUE. :grr:

[saltpoint]

56. The President, who hired Emanuel for that job, outranks us in many

key respects as to how long Emanuel holds the position.

[Bluenorthwest]

60. Teddy Roosevelt's take on that is slightly different:

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.


He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star",
May 7, 1918- war time, by the way

[saltpoint]

64. Excellent quotation.

Think how far back we have to go to find a Republican who could use language.

And he bolted from the party.

Emanuel is likely there to stay, so long as Obama wants him running the show and so long as Emanuel likes the work.

Calling him "poison," as the OP has, appears to circumvent the pragmatism that characterizes inside-the-Beltway politics.

[WhiteTara]

74. excellent quote. Thanks n/t

[Captain Hilts]

61. He was the president's FIRST choice to work with him. He does the Prez's bidding. nt

[Mass]

72. Why? Do you think he does anything Obama has not agreed to?\nt

[Phx_Dem]

73. LOSER. You, not Rahm. n/t

[Mudoria]

75. No

Who do you think he takes his marching orders from?