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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Meanwhile, was his leader present? Probably not, he is out campaigning and doing the hip hop routine somewhere.
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Naw, he was figuring more Medicare cuts to take drugs and food away from the elderly to pay for his vote buying and his support for the illegal Mexican vote.
I just heard this one KLBJ too!
Ummm..... I'm pretty sure rules and laws and such don't apply to Chicago politicians,
Might as well have been giving it to the American people.
The Muslim sends the Jew out with a dead fish..hmmm.
I’m thinking an Orange.
At least it wasn’t a fish and a new bed!
Mel
Sean should send him a tutu and a Ruths Chris gift card.
It would have been more appropriate if the fish was shoved up his worthless arse.
RAHM GOT THE AXE, THAT'S WHY.
Rahm hasn't even bothered to make the standard "I want to spend more time with my family" statement. His departure is the most abrupt of any I've ever seen concerning a high-mucky-muck advisor.
Rahm will NOT run for Da Mare of Chicago unless he's nuts and goes it alone for reasons of his own. Richie Daley will not permit it. He has no organized ward and patronage machine which controls all Chicago elections. All this leaving-D.C. stuff to run for office is an elaborate hoax.
Even at this moment, an issue of Rahm's legal Chicago residency has suddenly popped up, hah.
In the near future, Emanuee will more than likely be flopped like a dead fish on a witness chair in the upcoming Blago trial, either defending himself or ratting out his former capo of all capos. You can take your pick because when it comes to amoral big-league political maneuverers like Rahm, they go whichever way is most advantageous for themselves at any given time.
I have more chance than Rahmbo of being da next mare of Chi-caw-go.
Leni
Absolutely disgraceful. Now FOX radio has interrupted programming to play the marxist speech.WTH...why is this being played live?
The marxist is of course touting ‘his own’ record. Where’s my freakin’ shot gun...I’m tired of my radio anyway.
Never understood how an antisemitic Chicago Black Muslim ever hired him to begin with.
And O is reading from notes! You would think that he would know what to say when someone is leaving. Even Rahm has to read from notes!
I just want to puke. These people are so despicable there really are no words...Emmanuel is lying his ass off
O now he’s getting all ‘choked up’
Even more familiar with the other side of the horse.
Nope. Dear Leader is in Wales. He volunteered to help the U.S. Ryder Cup team, to be inserted to go against the hottest opponent. Our Stopper! USA! USA!USA! Gotta show that he's every bit as good as that North Korean guy with the many holes in one.
Based on what I’ve read, he’s a real jackass to work for. I hope he remains unemployed for a long, long time.
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