How to rebuild America (Rahm tells us how American can become Chicago)

WaPo ^ | 11/24/2012 | Rahm Emanuel

[muawiyah]

You need to enter at www.washingtonpost.com, not at that wapo ref to the story alone. Else you can’t enter comments. I stuffed a few in there just to make sure.

[IslamE]

Rahm is an anagram for Harm.

[grumpygresh]

Why not forced labor, such as the work battalions suggested by the ballerina? What other crises could emerge resulting in martial law and overflowing FEMA camps? Gun confiscation sounds good too.
This seems like an occupied country now. If a nuke took out Washington DC, would I even shed a tear?

[Makana]

“While infrastructure improvements have been neglected on a federal level for decades, “

Come to Massachusetts, where the orange barrel is the state flower. Big Dig ($ 2 Billion becomes $23 Billion), Route 95 in construction, overbuilt federal courthouses on the most expensive waterfront real estate in Boston, etc., etc.

[AZLiberty]

This is the line that gives me fits:

By embracing the president’s “all of the above” strategy, Democrats can own the policies that will begin to make the United States energy-independent in the next four years, a goal that has eluded the past eight presidents.

Rahm is telling the Democrats to hurry up and stake out the credit for the coming privately-funded, privately-researched, privately-executed energy boom.