Posted on 01/05/2010 8:24:55 AM PST by maggief
It's an interesting question being asked this morning thanks to Sally Quinn's column in today's Washington Post. The column begins reflecting on the revelation of a third uninvited guest who sneaked into November's state dinner and the ensuing mess this has cause the Secret Service and the White House. Quinn then turns the column to a discussion of the current White House power structure which leads to the inevitable Chicago connections, including White House social secretary Desirée Rogers and Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel. It's a this point that Quinn drops this paragraph on us:
Emanuel, the most political animal in this town, also should understand that keeping Rogers on as social secretary reflects upon the president's judgment. It's possible that he has other considerations. Emanuel is said to have told people that the chief-of-staff role is an 18-month job and that he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago. And Rogers is a major social and political player in the Windy City.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoist.com ...
Trial balloon.
Rahm is such a figgin phony. Can’t believe anything he says (especially news items he leaks about himself).
Remember.....his best friend is public relations guru David Axelrod.
Manipulating public opinion is the name of their game.
Wasn’t it rumored that 0 wanted to be mayor, not POTUS?
Imagine if there is something wrong with Obama. Guess who will try to run in 2012...RAHM!
I heard when he started his political career with Michele it was as far as he wanted to go, then after the Ryan fiasco and his landslide victory (lol) plus the keynote speech was when people put the thoughts of grandeur in his head.
He’s still young, after he gets his a** handed to him in 2012 I wouldn’t put him going back to Chicago and taking the reins of the city. His wife will always be pushing him politically, being mayor is almost the same if not higher than Governor. Hell, until the Blago fiasco there were a whole lot more people who knew Daley’s name than his around the world.
If he did run and win at least WE would be rid of him. I think he’s a dangerous guy.
If Emanuel is the political animal everyone says he is then he knows that he has no chance of beating Richard Daley in the Democratic primary for that office.
Emanuel is a thug.
Graham is an idiot.
Daley is bad.
Emanuel will be worse.
But as a resident of the Chicagoland area, I’d rather see Emanuel adding to the ruin of an already messed-up city, rather than facilitating the ruin of a still great (barely) country.
“I just hope they have enough to go after Rahm and Obama if Daley or Blago take an immunity offer, I know it will never happen but its fun to daydream sometimes...”
I like to dream too! I’ve heard that Rezko has been talking to the feds since his arrest. I’m sure he could nail them all.
Unless Daley steps down, there is no way Rahm could win in Chicago. It is the Daley machine that made Obama, not the other way around.
I don’t think MO is a happy camper. Jarrett was in line for the Senate seat appointment, and I thought Rahm wanted a placeholder for his congressional seat, aspiring to be future Speaker.
The Chicago Way is showing fissures.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/74285-going-it-alone
The problem for the Democrats is that they are rushing a bill that could mean their political undoing. They are sealing their collective political fates by hammering out deals that will prove to be unpopular with the majority of voters in the next election.
They are buying into the Rahm Emanuel Theory: that a failure to pass healthcare reform would be more politically damaging than passing something that is politically unpalatable to the majority of voters. He bases this on his personal experience with Clinton healthcare reform in the mid-90s.
But Rahm is drawing the wrong lesson from history.
Sure, the collapse of Hillary healthcare was politically embarrassing for the Clinton team. But it was the passage of the Clinton budget, which sharply raised taxes on senior citizens, that cost the Democrats the House.
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2010/01/ten-predictions-for-2010/
Ten Predictions For 2010
January 5, 2010
3. The Year of Resignations
Janet Napolitano, Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs will be gone by year’s end. Jon Huntsman (former Utah governor and current U.S. ambassador to China) will quit to contemplate a Republican presidential primary run in 2012. Hillary Clinton will resign if Obama’s approval ratings get stuck in the low 40s.
And whatever 'army' Rahm could get behind him, Daley has more 'foot soldiers'. Daley's got the trade unions, all the Hispanic vote, and the Black politicians - from Aldermen to Ward Committeemen, they all owe Daley. And Obama's gone from Chicago and will never come back (he's a Hawaiian again) so any pull he had is now gone. The Blacks will vote as they're told by *their Masters*; for Daley. Even Jesse Jackson Jr won't take Daley on [Plus, Daley still has 'The Mob Vote'. It's much smaller now, but they can still twist arms].
What Rahm would get is the the Jewish Vote and that's now minuscule in Chicago. A few in the Hyde Park neighborhood, some on the North Side along the Lake (north of Lincoln Park) and from the few Jews living in the far-far NW Side. So no, no Trial Balloon for mayor. If anything Rahm would run for his old House seat in the 5th District. That he could win.
Yeah, because what the GOP needs is another liberal abomination running for President. Well, if he'll take votes from fellow Socialist Slick Willard, let him run. Palin is the only one I will vote for.
Posted: Wednesday, 06 January 2010 7:49AM
Rahm Emanuel reported eyeing mayor’s job
Regine Schlesinger Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780
CHICAGO (WBBM) — There’s word this morning that President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, already is looking at life beyond the White House and that he might be eyeing the 5th floor at Chicago’s City Hall.
It was no secret that then-Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel was less than thrilled when the newly-elected president asked him to give up his seat in the House to become the White House chief of staff a year ago.
Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn tells Newsradio 780 she’s heard from people close to Emanuel that he’s told them he’s almost ready to leave.
“He’s said, ‘The job of chief of staff is an 18-month job, it’s a burn-out job.’ He’s made it quite clear that he’s not happy and that he’s totally stressed all the time and that he’s thinking of running for mayor of Chicago,” Quinn said.
Quinn doesn’t know whether that would be contingent on Mayor Daley retiring or whether Emanuel might challenge him in the 2011 election. In any case, Quinn believes by next fall, Emanuel will either be gone from the White House or at least will have announced that he’s leaving.
http://www.wbbm780.com/Rahm-Emanuel-reported-eyeing-mayor-s-job/6048918
I like Huntsman even less than Romney.
Dickie will not lose if he runs, Rahm wouldn’t dare run against him, if he did he’d get whipped. He’s the just about the only person I wouldn’t vote for just to oppose Daley.
Without his coveted Olympics it’s possible Daley may decide to pack it in and retire. I wouldn’t bet on it though.
(C)Huntsman is what Slick Willard would’ve done in Utah had he ran for Governor there (after he reduced the state GOP to minority status and made sure all the federal officials were Democrats).
Patrick Daley will be mayor. Rahm won’t know what hit him.
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