"He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala, who served with Emanuel on Clinton's staff. "The Democratic Party is full of Rhodes scholars -- Rahm is a road warrior. He's just what the Democrats need to fight back."
Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you." . . .
In person, Emanuel projects the hyperactivity of an attack dog straining at the leash. Although he swims and works out several mornings each week before most of his colleagues are out of bed, the exercise evidently does little to drain his energy -- he is constantly fidgeting, gesturing, spinning, always on the move. He's notorious for driving those around him mercilessly: When he joined Clinton's campaign team, he reportedly introduced himself by standing on a table and yelling at the staff for forty-five minutes. "We joke that someone should open a special trauma ward in Washington for people who've worked for Rahm," says Jose Cerda, a veteran staffer. Emanuel, who was reared in the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics, makes no apologies for his style. "If I got worried about that, I'd sit beneath my desk all day," he says. "I don't."
Only Paul Begala would fantasize about a ballet dancer's balls.
Gee, sure doesn't sound like the Emmanuel I knew at the '92 Clinton campaign. Back then we all snickered over him being a ballet dancer.
Yea, drafting lies, spreading disinformation, destroying those who came forward with truth and showing off his tutu to Democrat media allies.
Funny how big and bad he "supposedly is" when DeLay isn't hammering his @ss! I've seen Emmanuel too many times on Hannity and Colmes. You should see how big and bad he is when Sean confronts him on his own partys corruption! Wimp!
That's it! He should be president, he's gotit all! Take the White House an convert it back to Klintoon Whore House.
Will it make a big difference?
Look for the MSM to pound this theme daily in the coming 2006 election cycle.
The folks at MSNBC should haul in an extra load of paper towels to wipe up the slobber off Chris Mathews desk every night from him drooling at the thought of a dem sweep of the house.
Also remember Peter Jennings telling us in Newt's 1994 sweep into power that Americans had thrown a temper tantrum???
Think that will happen again if the dems win 10 seats???
Gee, how about a $25/hr minimum wage too?
did Emanuel amass alot of personal wealth with some "special favor" financial services job that he "fell into" after leaving the Clinton administration?
Where in the world did this come from? That is all they do, 24/7/365.
---yep, just what we need--- the Chicago mob in charge of the House--
Emanuel is a LOSER.
He operates in the same dying lib media.
He must deal with the insane anti-American kooks in his party.
2006 is another GOP victory.
The overwhelming majority of Conservatives and Republicans will vote in 2006 to maintain the House.
To stay home and allow liberals to take over the House at a time of WAR would be un-American. We can keep the GOP in line with our words, but to stay home makes you no better than a liberal.
Gee, Rahm, how much will all this cost and who will pay? Oh, and how do we do all this AND bring down the national debt? Oh wait, I know! We can disband the military entirely and use that money to pay for the giveaways. Amazing, the left works on pure emotion and "feel goodism". As long as it sounds good they think no one will look past the idea to the nuts and bolts of how we actually get all these social programs to come about. These people live in their own little fairyland where all things can be if only you wish for them hard enough.
And the Republican counter-part to him in the Senate is Elizabeth Dole, who has done a horrible job in recruiting candidates. Why did the Pubbies pick a "nice" Southern moderate woman to do the job that requires a "hard-nose" attitude? We needed somebody with an attitude like Tom DeLay, Mike Pence, or Tom Coburn.
Emanuel reeks of slime.....he sands off his horns every morning.
What about 2004, dipshit? You know, the election where Democrats were stomped like grapes!
You might think you're in a safe seat, ballet boy, but you're not.
His actions sound like somebody on drugs! I'm serious.
But I loved this statement: "'We're the party of change,' Emanuel tells me." ROTFLOL!
Everything the dems say is rehashed stuff they've used before. If they really wanted change - they'd come up with some NEW stuff.
Didn't know he knew Lorraine Bobbit.
Rahm Emanuel and Paul Begala aren't the face but the butt ofthe democrat party.
Rahm Emanuel and Paul Begala aren't the face but the butt of the democrat party.
The other Monica Lewinsky speaks out.