Posted on 10/01/2010 1:20:01 PM PDT by mylife
In the meantime, Emanuel's West Wing pals hilariously presented him with a dead fish as a leaving present (an in-joke). And not the best of optics, either, given the old Russian proverb that a fish rots from the head down. On Wall Street they'd call it a dead cat bounce but for the White House, come November, any "reset" for the Obama administration will turn out to be a dead fish bounce.
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Doesn’t Hannity call him that????
Yes.
Rahm sent a dead fish wrapped in newspaper to a Chicago political rival.
Poowhee!
Dead fish bounce: a new ballet move.
He should have been given an Asian carp given Chicago’s lack on interest in stopping their invasion of the Great Lakes.
That eye on the 0 emblem is also appropriate given his desire to snoop, and monitor our internet and phone activities.
Don’t give us none of that carp.
Asian carp have been in the Great Lakes for decades via Lake Erie.
"These guys think they're a bunch of tough guys with this dead fish business. Most tough guys don't do this stuff. I think they are a bunch of prissy metrosexuals posing as tough guys."
I grew up in mobtown USA.
Metrosexual or not, these guys are the new mob.
They break arms with the courts and they run the rackets.
What is National health care? Cap and trade?
They are rackets.
The old mob is gone, Gambino, Strollo, Danny Greene.
Definitely not metrosexuals, but their day is gone.
http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2010/08/cleveland_gangster_danny_green.html
Danny Kelly, Greene's oldest son, was 17 when his dad was killed. Growing up, he helped out with various tasks including crawling under his dad's car to check for plastic explosives. Kelly, who goes by his mother's maiden name, is not involved with the film and declined to discuss it. The one question he agreed to answer was: What was your dad like?
"He was Irish, Irish Catholic," said Kelly. "He believed the man upstairs pulled the strings and that there was someplace to go after this. Where he is today, he wouldn't trade places with either me or you here. He was truly intrepid. He did everything with humor. If you know somebody that has that charisma, that magnetism of the Irish personality, that was him. He probably could have been governor or senator if he hadn't gone the other way."
John Nardi was a tuff guy.
When they blew up his car blowing both his legs off he whispered “it didn’t hurt” before he expired.
I don’t understand the Asian Carp angle. ???
In November Trafficant will be in congress once again.
I guarantee.
The old goombas were loved. http://www4.vindy.com/content/local_regional/321053353202604.php
I can tell you this. Obama keeps working this area with campaigns, and the people hate him more and more with each appearance, but I have no idea what local union goons he is influencing with deals.
Asian carp are invading the great lakes. Lake Michigan in particular.
There are FReepers here who love Trafficant!
But he is just a racketeer.
IMO
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