Rahm Emanuel is a GOP Plant? Attn to NSA agents. Disloyalty detected.

[Mr Mannn]

DU is in sooooo much trouble now!

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 06:47 PM

Star Member devilgrrl (21,075 posts)

GOP Plant Rahm Emanuel is losing Chicago
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel cakewalked into office, from his former position as the White House chief of staff to President Obama, to succeed the two-decade reign of Richard M. Daley. Like Daley, Emanuel faced weak opponents who grumbled at his supersize war chest, thickly padded by financiers from Hollywood to Wall Street. But unlike Daley, Emanuel promised two things Chicagoans do not hear often: pledges for more government transparency, and to make “tough choices” to fix the city’s ballooning budget deficit.

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his proposal to reduce public library hours and staff; a contentious teacher strike that was the city’s first in 25 years; escalating gun violence that entered national headlines since last summer; a five-month renovation project that will shut down a major transit line on the South Side, primarily affecting black commuters; lackluster efforts to better the city’s unemployment rate that remains above 10 percent; and conflicting agendas on spending priorities, like the controversial announcement that 50 public schools will be shuttered in the city’s neediest neighborhoods to help shore up funds. That announcement happened to come the same week as another to spend $300 million in public money to build a new basketball arena and renovate Navy Pier, projects Emanuel promises will create 10,000 construction jobs, but others are calling white elephants in the making.

“He’s been an excellent CEO, he gives orders and things happen,” says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who now teaches political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “His weakness is that he’s not so good on democracy.”

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Business leaders are more forgiving of Emanuel’s no-nonsense style because they perceive him as a strong leader emboldened to do whatever it takes to drag Chicago out of the red, and develop long-term strategies to curb its financial crisis. Summing up this perspective is a quote by United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek, in a current Time magazine cover story on the mayor, who described Emanuel as “just what the doctor ordered.”

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Indeed, while more in his party feel emboldened to publicly criticize Emanuel than they had Daley, none are likely to mount a serious campaign to knock him out of his seat in two years. One reason is political: He still rules what remains a rubber stamp council. The second is money: He has way more than they ever will see in their lifetime. The third is time: For progressives, a traditionally unorganized group, two years to coalesce into a political majority is slim to none.

more: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/16/rahm_emanuel_is_losing_control_of_his_city/

Star Member Ed Suspicious (1,249 posts)
1. Holy sh**, this joker is just what the tea party ordered!

Star Member vi5 (10,179 posts)
2. Good.

F*** Rahm Emanuel. I'm happy to see that POS go down in flames. I just wish that 1) It wasn't at the expense of Chicago's poor and minority communities, and 2) we all know that those who devote themselves to the whims and needs of the wealthy at the expense of the poor will never be allowed to actually fail, except if it's upward.

Agent Mike...here's yet another one disloyal to the Chicago machine!

blkmusclmachine (3,400 posts)
3. Rahm, DINO

Obama's pal. Ugh.

MotherPetrie (2,053 posts)
4. Never forget this stinking loser was Obama's choice for his first chief of staff.

agent46 (870 posts)
5. They're fascists...er...corporatists

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Democrat or Republican, they are ideologues who believe that a democracy should be run like a corporation. All this talk about being a CEO - that kind of false comparison was never made before 9/11 when Bush and the Neocons seized power and the business of governing and making law was turned over to private lobbyists and banks. All they've managed to do is run our democracy into the ground.

Star Member Buzz Clik (29,626 posts)
6. Rahm is a really horrible excuse for a Dem, but he would be shunned by the GOP.

But, it's fun to say crazy shit.

TRoN33 (81 posts)
7. I already have known for long time...

That Rahm Emanuel is obviously an operative of the Republicans. Its not surprisingly because one of his close friend whom are also very close friend with Karl Rove. Rahm Emanuel's political philosophies are far more close aligned with the Republicans than it would be with the Democrats.

Rahm may be Democrat in eyes and in mind, he shouldn't be branded as traitor against Democrats because he is not Democrat in heart

Fuddnik (4,629 posts)
9. I watched that piece of sh** f*** every progressive in Florida when he ran the DCCC.

He went out and recruited Republicans to switch parties and run against them.

The only race he won was Mark Foley's seat. And they lost that the next election.

bvar22 (29,928 posts)
10. Had the close ties between Rahm and Obama been disclosed before 2008,

Obama probably wouldn't be president today.

He cleverly portrayed himself as the Anti-DLC and Anti-Hillary,
and publicly disavowed any connection to the DLC.

THEN, he did this on Day One.

JackRiddler (19,409 posts)
11. How is he a "GOP Plant"?

He was Obama's first appointment after the 2008 election, setting the tone for the five years since.

If you believe he is a GOP plant, what does that make Obama?

Phones will be tapped. the disloyal will be purged first. Send out the armed EPA forces. The crack meteorology armed forces. Obama's army assemble! Disloyalty in the ranks! 

[chitownchica]

I don't pay a lot of attention to local politics. The only thing I like about Rahm is he makes the moonbats' heads explode.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I don't pay a lot of attention to local politics. The only thing I like about Rahm is he makes the moonbats' heads explode.

I have long said, as a former & perhaps future resident of Chicago, that most Dems there are actually conservative. Not strong conservatives, but they are not moonbat crazy.

[chitownchica]

I have long said, as a former & perhaps future resident of Chicago, that most Dems there are actually conservative. Not strong conservatives, but they are not moonbat crazy.

A lot of them probably don't really know what their party stands for now. I'm guessing they come from Dem households, and don't get involved in politics because of the crazy Chicago machine.

[obumazombie]

Jesse "High" Jackson made his bones there, as did owebuma. The Daley machine ran Chicago from the mid 50's. The "reverend" Jeremiah Wright has been a minority agitator that was part of the Chicago machine that gave us owebuma. Maybe the ordinary dem in Chicago is center right, but their leaders are about as far left as a lib can get with almost no room for deprovement.

[Big Dog]

agent46 (870 posts)
5. They're fascists...er...corporatists

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Democrat or Republican, they are ideologues who believe that a democracy should be run like a corporation.

Says the Dumpmonkey who fails to know the definition of "fascist" and "corporatist", and who mistakenly thinks the United States is a democracy.

Three strikes and you're out, Dumbshit.

[DumbAss Tanker]

A lot of them probably don't really know what their party stands for now. I'm guessing they come from Dem households, and don't get involved in politics because of the crazy Chicago machine.

My Dad's family are life-long Lake County residents, all hereditary Dems to the core, of course.  The stuff the national Democrat Party stands for is both completely out of step with their own worldviews and totally off their radar.  Their awareness of national and foreign policy issues that don't directly and immediately affect the Chicago metro area is virtually nonexistent.   

[Karin]

^^ That's interesting, didn't know that. 

A GOP plant.  Can they get any crazier?  I just thought it was funny when Rahm called the likes of The DUmmies "****ing retards."   

[jukin]

They're fascists

BLIND SQUIRREL ALERT!!!!!

D stands for democrat and DUmb. They openly lie and do something completely different yet still get the DUmb vote. Then when they are found out they were lied to it means they are republicans. Democrats have the worst case of battered wife syndrome in history. At least the Germans and Russians knew they were being beaten but could do nothing about it.  Honey, you know I love you and I didn't mean to hit you but it was those republicans that made me do it, please come back.

Anyone want to bet that the DUmb vote will still reelect Stumpenfueher Rahm again?

[GOBUCKS]

Anyone want to bet that the DUmb vote will still reelect Stumpenfueher Rahm again?

That's a good bet, since his campaign already owns the votes of a couple hundred thousand dead people.

[chitownchica]

My Dad's family are life-long Lake County residents, all hereditary Dems to the core, of course.  The stuff the national Democrat Party stands for is both completely out of step with their own worldviews and totally off their radar.  Their awareness of national and foreign policy issues that don't directly and immediately affect the Chicago metro area is virtually nonexistent.   

I have 3 relatives who are Dems (if there are others,  I'm unaware). None of them seem to know what their party is all about these days. I don't think they want to know, which is sad because they are very decent people. 

[Tess Anderson]

Response to devilgrrl (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 01:29 PM

 datasuspect (26,047 posts)

27. that carpetbagging neocon shitbird

has ****ed up almost every *******ed street throughout the city with his stupid bike lane bullshit.

Response to devilgrrl (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 02:33 PM

 tritsofme (10,109 posts)

29. What an incredibly stupid title.


Rahm will have a massively successful reelection campaign with President Obama by his side.
 
There are whiners everywhere, Rahm isn't losing any sleep.

[Ptarmigan]

I have long said, as a former & perhaps future resident of Chicago, that most Dems there are actually conservative. Not strong conservatives, but they are not moonbat crazy.

Interesting. Is there some secret political party in Chicago?

[JohnnyReb]

What this country needs is some industrial grade "ROUNDUP" for politicians.

[Ballygrl]

JackRiddler (19,444 posts)
11. How is he a "GOP Plant"?

He was Obama's first appointment after the 2008 election, setting the tone for the five years since.

If you believe he is a GOP plant, what does that make Obama?

fasttense (14,539 posts)
13. Well Obama himself said he was a RepubliCON

""The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican," he told Noticias Univision 23 in a White House interview."

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/272957-obama-says-his-economic-policies-so-mainstream-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s#ixzz2WQg8PJ00

What we need is a lot less conservative fools who think they are RepubliCONS and more people who are real liberals, socialists and Marxists.

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 09:20 PM

MNBrewer (6,041 posts)
14. What an interesting rhetorical question you asked!!!

[Ralph Wiggum]

Interesting. Is there some secret political party in Chicago?

Short & to the point, Ptarmy.  Chicago is full of very conservative democrats. They only vote for Dems because there is no alternative.