Posted on 10/01/2010 7:57:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
October 01, 2010 9:55 AM
At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.
This was an allusion to the Emanuel legend of his sending a dead fish to a pollster for whom he didn’t care, replicating the scene from The Godfather when the Corleones were alerted of Luca Brasi’s death with a dead fish wrapped in Brasi’s bullet-proof vest. The specific species was a reference to Emanuel’s focus as a member of Congress and White House chief of staff on the aggressive, invasive Asian carp, bane of the Great Lakes, a plankton-devouring creature heading towards Chicago.
Goolsbee said: “I talked to the policy team and we wanted to give you a going away present—something to show how we feel about you but also shows we understand your new possibilities. I was the natural go between—I voted for you all three times you ran for Congress and even in that first primary. So here is your present.”
Emanuel opened it.
“This is a dead fish!” he said.
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I'll say something for Rahm: yes, he's an unprincipled scumbag, but he's at least an unprincipled scumbag with a grasp on reality. Which is why the rest of the Obami dislike him so much: he's not a true believer, he's not one of them.
And that's why he's gone.
What a bunch of carp.
Somebody on another thread posted they heard that since Rahm’s tenants won’t give up their contract on his residence he’s moving in with Mancow. Bizarro, if true.
It is stunning that our country’s officials and elected representatives feel so free to openly exhibit such childish yet thuggish behavior. It shows the lack of respect they have for the office or position they have been entrusted with. Yet enough American’s continue to vote for or support them in hopes to be given through legislation a “piece of the pie”.
I think it’s also because he may have some misgivings about Bambi’s Israel policy.
The symbolism for a gangster government is both blatant and appropriate. The use of a dead fish in sicilian mafia throughout ancient and current history— the meaning is that someone “sleeps with the fishes” that is, they are dead. By wrapping the fish in the chicago paper it is a form of implying that the paper better support him or they will sleep with the fishes. The complete ass backwards usage by Gibbs and others as a “going away gift” is a total lie and made up meaning. Anyone in the dems or DC who accept this kind of “ho ho” BS is in need of serious mental exam. This dude was the kind of person to give others a dead fish. He is a thug returning to thug land, now that his testimony in Blagovich trial was not taken, nor any testimony about HIM given any consideration. Another self hating jew, who went to kibbutz then said he was with the mossad and cut off his finger with them. When in fact he worked for a McDonalds in Israel. An ass, in other words. Fact check verifies the above, fwiw.
Was Rahmbo too wrapped . in a towel?
Or was he fully dressed?
a sweet Valencia?
“Based on what I’ve read, he’s a real jackass to work for.”
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What do you have against jackasses? They have already been insulted enough by becoming the symbol of a political party that doesn’t have the brains of one jackass if you put them all together. Now you go and call Rahm a jackass, such disrespect for an animal that has rendered service to mankind for thousands of years! Rahm is more like the residue of the jackass’s dinner that falls in piles behind him.
One real jackass is worth more than a thousand Rahms!
Now does being associated with the Mob help or hurt a candidate for Mayor of Chicago?
My guess is it is a prerequisite.
He’s got a slight problem, running for Mayor of Chicago:
You have to be a resident. I suppose he’ll work it out “Chicago style”.
Rules mean nothing to these people, that's why they're corrupt politicians.
Whenever that happens to me, I can hardly *SNIFF* contain myself.
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