Posted on 09/30/2010 4:17:07 PM PDT by Justaham
He once helped run state government in Juneau, played shortstop in a local softball league, and voted as an Alaska resident until he moved to a job in the White House two doors down from his close friend, President Barack Obama.
Now it's expected that Pete Rouse will move one office closer to the president when chief of staff Rahm Emanuel resigns to run for mayor of Chicago, and Rouse takes over Emanuel's responibilities.
Before moving to the White House, Rouse had spent 25 years as the consummate Democratic insider in the U.S. Senate, where he played a quiet role as the backdoor connection for Alaska's all-Republican delegation to the other side of the aisle in Congress. He was the longtime chief of staff for Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the one-time Senate majority leader. Starting in 2004, Rouse took on the same job for a promising young freshman senator from Illinois.
Today, as special adviser to Obama, Rouse is in the innermost circle of the West Wing. His office sits between Emanuel's and Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod.
Just one month after Obama took office, Rouse, who is in his mid 60s, described his ascendancy with Obama to the White House as "an interesting ride." "It's only been four years here, this trip from freshman senator," he said.
Rouse has deep family roots in Alaska — his mother, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, grew up in Anchorage starting in World War I, when it was a railroad construction town.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
Pete Rouse was banned for life, but still houlds the record for most hits in the Dislexic Baesball Laegue.
Since we have 57 States, I would think that we have 114 Senators.
“Rouse worked with Obama and Senator Russell Feingold on strengthening ethics reform legislation.”
Nuff said.
I thought everybody from Alaska were dumb, stupid hicks.
Oh wait.....Only Republicans from Alaska are dumb, stupid hicks.
Good luck, Pal...keep that preserver on, even during sleep, and don't get too far from a life boat.
This administration is going down...and you're going with it!
His parents were probably interned in the camps.
He probably has deep rooted grudges against the gringos, like his buddy the Kenyan.
Looks like both of them will spend the next couple of years taking out their revenge on the Americans.
So, a ram out and a louse in.
I didn't even read the article until after I posted...but not shocked.
It's as I thought, his motivation is revenge.
“U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, now fighting to retain her seat with a write-in campaign after losing the Republican primary to a tea party candidate, once praised him. “Pete’s very smart, highly skilled, and has always been totally square in our dealings,” she said.”
Is Pete Rouse the man who has been making Sarah Palin’s life miserable?
That is the problem with Murcowski, ‘he has always been totally square in our dealings.’ When you are in complete accord with this wingnut, then he would be totally square. That is why you, Murcowski, have to go.
“longtime chief of staff for Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D”
That did it... he’s a POS.
At first I misread it as “Pete Rose”, which would have been more interesting.
Maybe he ate the ballet dancer ...
Mark
I’d say Alaskan in name only. (AINO?)
Raised in Connecticut.
Harvard.
Whole working career in DC.
Typical east coast lib background.
That’s Elena Kagan, baby!
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