Rahm Emanuel Dismisses 'Hyper-Partisan' Charges

foxnews.com ^ | November 09, 2008 | ap

[Nachum]

Barack Obama's designated chief of staff -- responding to Republicans' concerns that his tough, partisan approach might run at odds with Barack Obama's administration -- said it's up to the new president to set a bipartisan "tone." Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, appearing Sunday on ABC News' This Week, dismissed such charges by saying Obama will maintain his pledge to govern in a bipartisan manner. Last week, the Republican National Committee put out a press release calling Obama's choice of Emanuel, "Obama's Broken Promise" because the Illinois politician has a reputation for being "hyper-partisan."

[dr_who]

Castro probably thinks he’s a moderate, too.

[farlander]

Pbhttt... Lenin though he was the savior of the people, just as he sent millions of them to their deaths.

[darkwing104]

Wasn't Stalin a moderate also?

[Tzimisce]

No we’re not “hyper partisan”.

The people who disagree with us are.

[xkaydet65]

He’s the CoS, he’s supposed to be hyper partisan. Karl Rove was the darling of the Dums for his bi partisan manner?
Obama is going to govern as a Liberal Democrat. How liberal is a guess right now but to be honest he could have gone lot farther left than Emmanuel

[Jim Robinson]

He’s right. How much more bi-partisan can you get than Rahm Emanuel and Jamie Gorelick? /sarc

[goodnesswins]

REPUBLICANS need to be MORE “Hyper-partisan”

[Nachum]

He’s right. How much more bi-partisan can you get than Rahm Emanuel and Jamie Gorelick? /sarc

James Carville?

[Dilbert San Diego]

What are we to think of somebody like Emmanuel, who has such a bad temper and holds grudges, that he stabbed a table with a steak knife repeatedly, pretending to stab evil Republicans, and who childishly sent a dead fish to a lobbyist he was pissed off at???????

He’s almost 50 years old but he’s an adolescent. Why do we have to have children running the White House?????

[Chairman of the Bard]

Of course Emanuel is hyper-partisan, just as Obama is. In the liberal "mind", bipartisan is Republicans voting with Democrats on Democrat initiatives. Partisan is when Republicans have the unmitigated audacity to oppose, and vote against Democrat initiatives.

[GnL]

Because we have children voting them into the White House?

[gwilhelm56]

Rahm makes DU seem TAME!!

[Gil4]

“Obama will maintain his pledge to govern in a bipartisan manner.”

Did he finish that with “And any Republicans who don’t believe that can go f*** themselves.”

[ken21]

too bad solzhenitsyn isn’t still alive,

he’d be rolling with amusement.

[AC-130 Gunship]

"Wasn't Stalin a moderate also?"

As per the MSNBC usual gaggle of idiots, he'd be described as a "Compassionate Conservative."

[darkwing104]

As per the MSNBC usual gaggle of idiots, he'd be described as a "Compassionate Conservative."

Translation; He didn't kill enough people.

[AC-130 Gunship]

"Translation; He didn't kill enough people."

Plus he NEVER waterboarded even one prisoner.

[FormerACLUmember]

Rahm Emanuel: "To all those who say I'm hyperpartisan, I would simply say that if you stand in our way... f%$#@k you...I will kill you, your children, anyone who ever knew you...."

[hope]

"Rahm Emanuel Dismisses 'Hyper-Partisan' Charges"

Same old shoe...new shoe laces?

o.k.