Remember that funny, foul-mouthed creature who used to lurk around Barack Obama, screaming things? Well he left Washington, D.C. because he heard the Earthquake of 2011 was a-comin’ and wanted to be in Chicago, where the ground does not move. And he is so happy he did this that he cannot keep his love a secret!
After 100 days as Chicago mayor, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel sure is happy being in the Windy City, where he says his work is a lot more enjoyable “versus dealing with the national debt.”
“Here, you get instant feedback. You get a sense of engagement, and you get a way to make decisions about topics that are close to home in the way people live their lives — so I love this,” Emanuel said in an interview with NPR to mark his 100th day in office on Tuesday.
Were he still President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Emanuel would have spent recent months shuttling between the West Wing and Capitol Hill trying to work out a deal — in his famously blunt manner — to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the deficit.
So there is your update on Rahm Emanuel, who is sipping his strawberry daiquiris and swearing at children while we suffer, of course. [Politico]
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Well, that makes two of us.
You beat me to stating it.
First time for everything. It will prolly be the last time, too. I am slooooooooow.
Damn!
Fuck Rahm Emmanuel.
You hear me? FUCK HIM RIGHT IN THE EAR!
Thank you for your time and kind attention.
Sounds like he's counting his blessings. Too bad he can only get up to nine.
I thought it was 9.5.
It's 11:36pm and still no conspiracy theories on this "earthquake"….
America's nuts must be on vacation this week.
“From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''
- former G Dubya Bush thief-of-staff Andrew Card.
HAARP Chemtrails Jews did 9/11!!!!!!!!!!!
3 words: SORRO'S EARTHQUAKE MACHINE!!!!!!!
Wake up Sheeple!
Some of the biggest nuts are… Congress.
You must not be reading the right nuts. I've already heard X bazillion theories ranging from fracking to "Obummer did it." In fact some looney rabbi hit the airwaves this morning to announce it was all teh fault of teh gheyz.
Fucking ret@rded
It's sooo easy. A judge says you are not a resident eligible for election, just find another judge. No problemo.
And no hurricanes to boot.
Why do you hate Rahm and Carl Lewis so much?
Smiling Jerk Rahm Emanuel Is So Happy To Be Out of The White House
Dear Rahmbo: Eat Shit And Die.
(you can die and eat shit later, that's o.k.)
~
What was that old line about sinking ships?
I hope you're not talking about the one with "loose lips" because then I would have to hate you forever for planting the images of Rahmbo's lips in my brain.
Maybe he means a rising tide sinks all ships?
Yeah, but he's still mayor of Chicago, though. I kid, I kid.
I think his title is actually "Smiling Sociopath Rahm Emanuel."
As crappy as Rahm was, I liked him a hell of a lot better than Bill Daley.
Bill Daley, as responsible as anyone for Al Gore's "sore loser" reputation, c. 2000 election. Hell of a guy.
I ask: would Richard, Sr., have had Gore concede, then un-concede, on Election Night, with the margin as narrow as it were? Hell, no! Why, Big Dick would have beaten the Republicans to a Brooks Brothers Riot… So, I'll give him that: he knew how to win.
He sure sounds happy. Good for him.
But he ought to remember: Good or bad, Obama will be remember for things other than cutting and running like a goddamned shitheel coward as soon as the clouds began to gather.
Thanks for your service to your country, asshole. You will be remembered for that time you did the swordfighting in the showers with Eric "Ticklefight" Massa.
I can't wait for Rahm's new book, "Dreams from My Fathead".
But, Emanuel said, he’s trying to avoid celebrating too soon. “I’m not spiking the ball on the 20-yard line.”
Nice metaphor, douchbag. Even coked-up, steroid-addled foo'ball players usually wait until the 5-yard line before spiking the ball prematurely. But then mebbe spiking the ball on the 20-yard line is closer to your White House career.
But what if your out of time outs and it's 2 down with 8 seconds left and your down by 2 pts? HUH RAHM? WHAT THEN?!?!?! YOU GOT TO GET THAT FIELD GOAL UNIT ON!
“Up in this here motherfucker, you get it back in the sack. You get a whiff of interrelations, and you get a way to make topical decisions that are up in your shit like corn in the way people fuck it up, so to speak — so I love this cocksucking motherfucking shit,”
Damn y'all — harshin' on Rahm for a reason? Yes he watered down a lot of bills and lowballed the Obama starting position and had enough strategic fuckups to annoy plenty of people. But hell, why the hate? Did he kill a puppy? One who didn't have it coming, I mean?
Kill a puppy? Please! Surely you've heard Rahm's mayoral campaign song.
I don't know if it's hate Wooks, but Rahm just seems like a constipated insider turd, like Larry Summers, who laugh at progressives and are rock-solid corportists through and through.
I wasn't too keen on the "tough-guy" image he tried to cultivate, because it always seemed so false. A tough guy picks a fight with the biggest, meanest SOB in the house and wins more times than not. Rahm always seemed to pick the fights he had cynically calculated that he could win, lower expectations, bargain away most of what his bosses wanted, and then "won."
Everything always felt so choreographed with him, as if you were watching a professional wrestling match. I mean, he was very good at what he did, but to me, it was never truly winning for the people that actually needed the point. I know a lot of people just call what I described politics, but I think even for politics he oversells his talents.
Rahm Emanuel: the John Cena of Washington.
No way. John Cena is actually likeable.
every time i see Rahm Emanuel's name i think of Mola Ram. cover your heart, Indy. Kali Ma.
Mola Ram- I think of lamb with chocolate sauce or perhaps a Panamanian embroidery of an old Sheep
Rahm is nine fingered vulgarian.
More like nine and a half.
I have a weird crush on Rahm, call me crazy, but I think the fucking would be fun with this one.
Me too Limey, I'm not hating on the Rahm.
Good for us! I find him strangely attractive, I bet he is really fun, and funny, in bed.
I think he's a hottie. Also,I don't get the h8. I don't agree with his politics, but I could enjoy the guy, I think.
Yes, he seems like a smart, funny, edgy man.
And the Cubs still suck.
Wait till next year.
Don't blame Rahm for that! It's Obama's fault.
Politics is not a fistfight. It's a ballet.
Not from Chicago, are you?
Nope. Those people scare the shit out of me:
http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/12740456-rahm_emanuel...
Really? I thought it was a screaming subway bum fight reeking of urine and getting bodily fluids on innocent passersby, but maybe I've been paying attention to the wrong politics.
Nah, I think your definition is the closest to teh Reel T'ing.
Imagine! Imagine a swarthy man, who once lived in DC, but thinks he can swear his way to fiscal sanity in Chicago while his children are educated in mysterious private schools…
Calm Emmanuel likes his new jorb. Great.
Meanwhile, back at Capitol Hill, without some crazy 9-fingered loudmouth to at least scare them a little bit, there is no one around to call the assholes assholes when they are acting like assholes. This includes probably more Democrats than Republicans.
I mean, its not like the hostility went down after he left.
Precisely, Mr. Mencken.
He's giving us his Invisible Finger.
Rahm is doing a decent, technocratic job of cleaning up the fiscal messes that Richie left for him here, and he is too smart to let the institutional venality of Chicago fuck up his admin. I don't like the guy he brought in to fix the schools, but the police chief has a clue and some early results. Us homeowners are going to have to come out of our property tax pockets to keep up our tradition of not being Cleveland or Detroit, but in Illinois, we are sane and mature enough to ignore Bagger tantrums about paying for a semi-functioning government. (That's adult stuff that I'm sure youngsters like Blair don't even register, with their nightly Lakeview drinking binges and hooking up to find a mate so they can get the fuck out to Barrington or Palatine for their Prime Breeding Years.) Funny how you can have a dialog with unions when you aren't sworn to destroy them at all costs. I don't give a damn if he sends his kids to Lab. As for the hippie punching back in the White House, that was self-defense.
p.s. I'm over myself, pardon the interruption.
Welcome back. In honour of the occasion, I'll avoid my usual baseless attacks on your fair city. Other than pointing out that it's too hot and humid, dammit!
"p.s. I'm over myself, pardon the interruption."
Getting over yourself is always the hard part. Welcome back.
Baby! I missed you so much, welcome home!
Oh Lizzie, I can't quit you!
Did you get my secret missive?
Oh no, I did not!
Nice analysis, Chet. You're absolutely right that no one's in the WH to call the assholes assholes. (Although Maxine Waters is doing a fine job in the OTHER House.)
Edit: Glad to see you back, dood. It's a better place for having you in it.
A smiling Rahm could mean another well weighted canvass sack slowly sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
See, now, that's the thing I like *best* about Rahm. He didn't mind helping the other side to a pair, or more, of concrete overshoes.
“Just a jack knifeHas Rahm MacHeathAnd he keeps itOut of sight.”
He didn't seem to mind fitting folks on his own side for them either. In fact, he seemed to enjoy it at least as much.
That said, he'll make a much better mayor than he did a chief of staff, and I don't mean that as an insult, at all. I think his skill set suits him better for local government.
I think Barry could have used "The Undersecretary of Go Fuck Yourself" during the debt ceiling fandango. The soundbites would have been entertaining if nothing else.
So, Barry Mann and I are still wondering, who put the "Rahm" in the "Rahm-a lama ding dong?"
I went to your blog and emailed you! Go look, maybe I went to spam.
Just checked my spam folder, and also sent myself an email from the link–it's working, but i didn't see anything from you. Try again?
I will send the same email I sent, oh so sad!!
Got it! Can I reply, or should I eat it?
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