[Steve_Seattle]

"Rahm Emmanuel as chief of staff is not going to be looking to work with republicans. a meaner, more vindictive, partisan you will not find."

Exactly. The very first step of Obama the unifier and agent of change was to recycle one of the most bitterly partisan and borderline-criminal figures from the Clinton administration.

If this is a portent of how Obama will govern, it is actually good news for conservatives, because it means his arrogance will cause him to overstep his mandate and alienate a public which is not nearly as far to the left as he is.

[xsmommy]

this story needs to be brought back and publicized:

On the night after the 1996 election, "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."[1] His "take-no-prisoners attitude" earned him the nickname "Rahm-bo".[10]