Chicago's Emanuel gives advice to Dems in House: divide and conquer

Fox News ^ | 12 Nov 2018 | Andrew O'Reilly

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has some advice for Democrats now that they’ve gained back control of the House: divide and conquer.

“The Democrats should triangulate," the Chicago mayor said during a panel discussion on ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "They should find everything that Mitch McConnell and the president don’t agree on and go right at it, because that will force a division in the Republican Party and bring in whatever moderate wings of the Republicans that are left and bring them over to the Democratic.”

Emanuel, speaking of the Senate GOP leader, said: “Wherever Mitch McConnell is against something — minimum wage, health care costs, pre-existing conditions — and the president is for it, you drive 64,000 miles an hour and you hit it.”

With his comments, Emanuel, who was a three-term congressman from Illinois before spending two terms in Chicago’s mayoral office, appears to be diving back into Washington politics after electing not to run for a third term in office. He was previously President Barack Obama’s chief of staff from 2009 to 2010.

Speaking alongside former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – who is rumored to be on the shortlist to replace Jeff Sessions as President Trump’s attorney general – Emanuel continued his post mortem of the midterm elections by pointing to the gains made by Democrats.

“Listen, they (Democrats) secured and are starting to secure the majority in the suburbs and some exurban areas,” Emanuel said. “The biggest win for the Democrats? We finally got a farm team after a big drought.”

Emanuel, however, said that Democrats didn’t see the fulfillment of the so-called “blue wave” they were expecting and that Republicans also made solid gains last Tuesday.

[socalgop]

I agree. Unfortunately that’s because it’s easy to be unified in opposition. The house didn’t have any issues passing votes to repeal obamacare when they knew it wouldn’t go anywhere. But a lot of congresscritters lost their nerve when faced with a real vote to end coverage for preexisting conditions. If you want to avoid a rino-repeat next time, we need to cultivate better congressmen through primaries and don’t let mccarthy be speaker.

[KyCats]

In other words, they should not do their jobs and execute the duties of their elected offices in good faith. They should play politics 100% of the time.