Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House (YippekyAye)







Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job
later this year after growing tired of the "idealism" of Barack
Obama's inner circle.




Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House
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Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration
at their unwillingness to "bang heads together" to get policy
pushed through.

Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are
understood to have reached an understanding that differences over
style mean
he will serve only half the full four-year term.


Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young
family due to the pressure of one of most high profile jobs in US
politics.

"I would bet he will go after the midterms," said a leading Democratic consultant in Washington. "Nobody thinks it's working but
they can't get rid of him – that would look awful. He needs the right
sort
of job to go to but the consensus is he'll go."

An official from the Bill Clinton era said that "no one will be surprised"
if Mr Emanuel left after the midterm elections in November, when the
Democratic party will battle to save its majorities in the house of
representatives and the senate.

It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed between pragmatic
Mr Emanuel, a veteran in Congress where he was known for driving
through
compromises, and the idealistic inner circle who followed Mr Obama to
the
White House.

His abrasive style has rubbed some people the wrong way, while there has been
frustration among Mr Obama's closest advisers that he failed to
deliver a
smooth ride for the president's legislative programme that his
background
promised.

"It might not be his fault, but the perception is there," said the consultant, who asked not to be named. "Every vote has been tough,
from
health care to energy to financial reform.

"Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did
for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm's job."

There were sharp differences over health care reform, with Mr Emanuel arguing
that public hostility about cost should have forced them into
producing a
scaled down package. Mr Obama and advisers including David Axelrod,
the
chief strategist, and Valerie Jarrett, a businesswoman and mentor from

Chicago, decided to push through with grander legislation anyway.

Mr Emanuel has reportedly told friends that his role as White House chief of
staff was "only an eighteen month job" because of its intensity.

Regarded as the most demanding after president, it involves controlling the
president's agenda, enforcing White House message discipline as well
as
liaising with Congress.

His departure would regarded as another sign of how Mr Obama's presidency has
been far more troubled than expected.

Mr Emanuel has privately expressed a readiness to run for mayor of Chicago,
which is also his home town though he was never part of the Obama set
and
did not endorse the then senator in the Democratic primary in 2008.

That would however depend on Mayor Richard Daley stepping down when he is up
for re-election in 2011.

The chief obstacle to taking the White House job originally was doubts about
moving his three children from Chicago. According to another former
Clinton
official, he has let friends know that he is "very sensitive to the
idea that he is not a good father for having done this".

One of Washington's more colourful characters, Mr Emanuel is the son of Jewish
immigrants and was an accomplished ballet dancer at school. He served
as a
civilian volunteer with the Israeli Defence Force in the 1991 Gulf
War.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Friday but on
Monday, Mr Emanuel issued a statement: “This is BS. And if you need it
for
translation, it’s baseless.”



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Comment by Sweettina2 on June 23, 2010 at 2:50pm
Maybe he's mad cause he wanted to be dictator. And dictator we have! Yall know how when a dictator comes to power, he throws some of his people under the bus? I think that has begun. Maybe he's cutting the obvious evil off (emanuel) to look better to the people (not a damn chance).
We have just seen Obama can McChrystal for speaking against him and his agenda...commie dictator.
Comment by fireguy on June 22, 2010 at 11:10am
Don't let the door hit you in the ass as you leave punk.
Comment by truth on June 22, 2010 at 10:41am



Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff

Illinois Congressman. Chief of State to a President. Usually indicates character, resolve, and leadership. Add these three words: Chicago Democrat Blago and we have a recipe for disaster.

Emanuel agreed to sign a letter to the Chicago Tribune supporting Blagojevich in the face of a scathing editorial by the newspaper that ridiculed the governor for self-promotion. Within hours, Emanuel’s own staff asked for a favor of its own: The release of a delayed $2 million grant to a school in his district.

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Rahm-Traded-Favors-with-B...

Emmanuel was going to have his Ari Gold brother host a fundraiser for Blago in exchange for a really nice school in his Congressional district. Sounds like some very effective Tammany style politics EXCEPT Blago never got the fundraiser and Rahm Emmanuel got his school.

The question remains, then what did Rahm Emmanuel give Rod Blagojevich?

"Destroying the New World Order"

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