Well, I wondered what had happened to that finger...
Posted on 07/07/2010 7:19:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Top Republican says Emanuel gave him the finger By Jordan Fabian - 07/07/10 09:13 AM ET
Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), a top House Republican, described a colorful chance encounter with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in an interview published Wednesday.
Issa, the ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been a thorn in the side of the Obama administration on many issues, particularly on claims that that the White House offered Senate candidates jobs to get out of primaries against candidates backed by the White House.
In a profile, the New York Times detailed Issa's claim that Emanuel gave him the middle finger:
As a sign of the pride Representative Darrell Issa takes in annoying the Obama administration, consider his account of a recent exchange with Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman and now the White House chief of staff. In describing the episode — a chance encounter outside the House gym — Mr. Issa smirked and raised his middle finger.
“That’s the only thing Rahm did when he saw me,” Mr. Issa, a California Republican, boasted in an interview in his House office. He waved the unfriendly digit in the air like a trophy before folding it into a nub (to mimic Mr. Emanuel, who lost part of his finger in a long-ago meat-cutting accident).
The piece describes Issa as President Barack Obama’s "Annoyer-in-Chief." Emanuel denied that the incident ever happened:
More annoying? Mr. Emanuel, through a spokeswoman, said the incident did not occur.
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), who resigned from Congress amid an investigation of inappropriate physical contact with aides, described a similar incident with Emanuel in March.
He said that last year, Emanuel accosted him in the congressional gym's showers about Obama's budget while the chief of staff was completely naked. Massa accused the chief of staff of going to the gym to "intimidate" members of Congress.
Sit and spin. Don’t know where that finger’s been. Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?
I hope ‘dead fish’ was dressed this time at least.
tattle tail, these idiots are in office?
tattle tell, these idiots are in office?
Well flip him the bird back.
So what? “The Bird” is becoming a standard democrat argument. Its the president’s go-to retort, as well.
Emanuel denied that the incident ever happened:
More annoying? Mr. Emanuel, through a spokeswoman, said the incident did not occur.
Really. Who writes this stuff? Don't they have editors or proof readers? Aside from Teachers, J School grads have to be on average the dumbest people to hold a college degree.
Uhhh... We’re dealing with Chicago thugs in Marxist clothing. What do you expect?
This Emanuel ‘guy’ is a punk. Are there any real men - you know, men with balls that know how to use them - in the White House today?
These are CHILDREN. And this behavior starts at the top - obama is like a bratty child everytime HE displays his strategically timed ‘middle-finger’ itch/scratches.
What have we as a society become? -to elect creatures like this to govern us?
We’re in Jr. High again.......ugh
Issa raised it?
WTH?
So? The American people have been given the finger for nineteen months now.
Well, I wondered what had happened to that finger...
Agreed. Sounds like junior high school tattle tales.
So that's what happened.
I am not surprised to find out that Mr. Emanuel likes to handle meat.
His way of saying “We won” over and over. Pop the little sissy in the nose the next time and get back to work...tattle tale.
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