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A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
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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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deadfish; rahm
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To: Sub-Driver
They must have really liked the guy.

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.

41 posted on 10/01/2010 9:19:50 AM PDT by mojito
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To: AU72

What a bunch of carp.


42 posted on 10/01/2010 9:29:31 AM PDT by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: MinuteGal

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.


43 posted on 10/01/2010 9:33:19 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (The Professional Left: Using Your Money to Promote Their Ideology Since the 1930's)
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To: Sub-Driver

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”.


44 posted on 10/01/2010 9:42:19 AM PDT by love2cook
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To: mojito

I think it’s also because he may have some misgivings about Bambi’s Israel policy.


45 posted on 10/01/2010 10:03:26 AM PDT by livius
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


46 posted on 10/01/2010 10:15:53 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama’s Jewish puppet masters are bailing. This is not good news. The people left are, well, affirmative action success stories...
47 posted on 10/01/2010 10:34:24 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama’s Jewish puppet masters are bailing. This is not good news. The people left are, well, affirmative action success stories...
48 posted on 10/01/2010 10:34:24 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Was Rahmbo too wrapped . in a towel?

Or was he fully dressed?


49 posted on 10/01/2010 10:38:15 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: wordsofearnest

a sweet Valencia?


50 posted on 10/01/2010 10:53:55 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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To: mbynack

“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!


51 posted on 10/01/2010 12:48:02 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Clem Hussein Kadiddlehopper would be a vast improvement.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now does being associated with the Mob help or hurt a candidate for Mayor of Chicago?
My guess is it is a prerequisite.


52 posted on 10/01/2010 1:35:37 PM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: Sub-Driver

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”.


53 posted on 10/01/2010 3:59:46 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
Wait until he finds out that since he rented out his Chicago home last year, he is no longer a resident and is therefore ineligible to run for office in that city.

Rules mean nothing to these people, that's why they're corrupt politicians.

54 posted on 10/01/2010 6:18:27 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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55 posted on 10/01/2010 6:21:20 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: Sub-Driver; Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33
A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off

Whenever that happens to me, I can hardly *SNIFF* contain myself.

56 posted on 10/02/2010 3:44:27 AM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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