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(Wall Street Journal)   The good thing about Obama's new chief of staff: He might be able to get the wackier members of Congress, like Barbara Boxer or Nancy Pelosi, to STFU   (online.wsj.com) divider line
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Locke3k
2008-11-07 4:39:06 PM  
In before Gary has a chance to show up and tell us why this is a Very Bad Thing...for Obama.
 
quickdraw
2008-11-07 4:50:58 PM  
Rahm Emmanuel is efficient, ruthless and loyal. He's a brilliant pick.
 
DamnYankees
2008-11-07 5:01:00 PM  
Can someone tell me how the hell Barbra Boxer is wacky? She's a damn fine Senator. CA has 2 good ones.
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:13:17 PM  

quickdraw: He's a brilliant prick.


FTFY.

/agree its a great pick
//you need a hammer
 
Gangway Fathead
2008-11-07 5:14:23 PM  

DamnYankees: Can someone tell me how the hell Barbra Boxer is wacky? She's a damn fine Senator. CA has 2 good ones.


I was just about to post the same thing.
 
Just_Dan
2008-11-07 5:14:27 PM  

bartink: quickdraw: He's a brilliant prick.

FTFY.

/agree its a great pick
//you need a hammer


Funny, that is how I first read it.
 
Isitoveryet
2008-11-07 5:15:07 PM  
well educated, experienced, and light on his feet he's gonna dance circles around all of 'em.
 
T-Luv
2008-11-07 5:15:11 PM  

DamnYankees: Can someone tell me how the hell Barbra Boxer is wacky? She's a damn fine Senator. CA has 2 good ones.


Um, maybe it's because she should be in the kitchen making me a sandwich.
 
DamnYankees
2008-11-07 5:15:30 PM  
I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole. Can someone clue me in?
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:15:32 PM  

DamnYankees: Can someone tell me how the hell Barbra Boxer is wacky? She's a damn fine Senator. CA has 2 good ones.


She is a smart, confident woman. They hate that.

/re: Palin
 
gshepnyc
2008-11-07 5:16:49 PM  
Pelosi, for better or worse, is Speaker of the House. Third in line to the Presidency and her political loyalties are with Congress, not the Executive. If Emmanuel's goal is to silence her or thwart her, how have we improved over the Bush adminstration?

/not a fan of Pelosi
//fan of our checks and balances
 
Cubicle Jockey
2008-11-07 5:17:08 PM  
I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole.

You missed the "DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!" posts from yesterday?
 
ZangTT
2008-11-07 5:17:44 PM  

DamnYankees: I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole. Can someone clue me in?


Because his daughters are always smiling and look really happy?
 
T-Luv
2008-11-07 5:18:34 PM  

ZangTT: DamnYankees: I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole. Can someone clue me in?

Because his daughters are always smiling and look really happy?


What a total douche bag!
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:19:17 PM  

Cubicle Jockey: I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole.


Its like Alec Baldwin. The word was he was a prick, but there were never specifics, and then came the tape.
 
Isitoveryet
2008-11-07 5:19:22 PM  
Damn Yankees

i like him! just could'nt pass up the op.
lighten up Francis?
 
Lawnchair
2008-11-07 5:19:48 PM  
"Guide my pimp hand and make it strong, G*d, so that she might learn a Senators' place. Amen."

Again, Boxer isn't really wacky at all. Durbin, Schumer, and Clinton may need a pimp-stroke (Sanders is left but restrained), but the Dem. Senators are mostly far more moderate than the GOP Senators were. In the House, though, there's plenty of wacky to go around
 
nesler
2008-11-07 5:21:05 PM  
bartink: She is a smart, confident woman. They hate that.

/re: Palin

Palin...smart? And there's a difference between confident and arrogant.
 
Mistah Scrotie
2008-11-07 5:21:47 PM  

gshepnyc: Pelosi, for better or worse, is Speaker of the House. Third in line to the Presidency and her political loyalties are with Congress, not the Executive. If Emmanuel's goal is to silence her or thwart her, how have we improved over the Bush adminstration?

/not a fan of Pelosi
//fan of our checks and balances


Yeah, hopefully congress will correct that on their own.
 
Fart_Machine
2008-11-07 5:22:04 PM  

DamnYankees: I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole. Can someone clue me in?


From Wiki...

Emanuel is said to have "mailed a rotting fish to a former coworker after the two parted ways."[7] On the night after the 1996 election, "Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting 'Dead! ... Dead! ... Dead!' and plunging the knife into the table after every name."[6] His "take-no-prisoners attitude" earned him the nickname "Rahm-bo".[7]

Yeah, if that's true then I can see why people would think he's an asshole. Then again, if he gets shait done who cares? They're not appointing him to be the receptionist.
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:22:38 PM  

nesler: Palin...smart? And there's a difference between confident and arrogant.


As in, see Palin (stupid and confident). I totally screwed it up, I admit.
 
vabeard
2008-11-07 5:22:46 PM  
Tell Pelosi, Reid, and LIEberman to STFU and remove them from their offices.
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:23:17 PM  

Corvus: That is going to be the hard thing to do. Defeating Republicans was easy, getting Democrats to agree, now that will be hard!


Not when they owe him so much. He's got capital, or something.
 
DamnYankees
2008-11-07 5:23:46 PM  

Fart_Machine: Yeah, if that's true then I can see why people would think he's an asshole. Then again, if he gets shait done who cares? They're not appointing him to be the receptionist.


The "dead...dead...dead" thing was him referencing a movie - shiat, I can't remember which one it is right now. But suffice it to say, he was merely doing an impression from a movie.

Yeah, that fish think is kind of jerky.
 
CityHall
2008-11-07 5:23:53 PM  
I think that's why Obama picked him. To get the Democrats in line and keep them from acting selfishly.
 
Isitoveryet
2008-11-07 5:24:00 PM  
did someone say Baldwin?
[image from fairly-unbalanced.com too old to be available]
the long lost 4th Baldwin, hotlinked
 
vernonFL
2008-11-07 5:24:48 PM  
From all accounts, Rahm Emmanuel is a complete and total asshole, but he gets shiat done.
 
rfant
2008-11-07 5:24:58 PM  
[image from apsu.edu too old to be available]

obammy's western White House
 
Fart_Machine
2008-11-07 5:25:55 PM  

Cubicle Jockey: I like how everyone is talking about what an asshole this guy is, but none of us have ever met him, and I haven't even heard any specific stories of him being a massive asshole.

You missed the "DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!" posts from yesterday?


I keep seeing Robert DeNiro in the Untouchables...

I want you to get this fark where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!
 
degreeless
2008-11-07 5:25:58 PM  
I heard he throws gunny sacks full of helpless, puppies into streams of magma flowing from the mouth of hell.
 
winterwhile
2008-11-07 5:26:22 PM  
Chairman Obama is just a on a string from Comrade Pilosi. She pulls, he dances.
 
Pro Zack
2008-11-07 5:26:34 PM  

vernonFL: From all accounts, Rahm Emmanuel is a complete and total asshole...


you should read some of his posts on Fark
 
libbynomore2
2008-11-07 5:27:22 PM  
quickdraw [TotalFark] Quote 2008-11-07 04:50:58 PM
Rahm Emmanuel is efficient, ruthless and loyal. He's a brilliant pick.


Wow, kinda sounds like you're talking about Karl Rove. Both hyper partisan cut throats, except Obama chose his partisan cut throat as his chief of staff.

But that's TOTALLY different right?

Cuz Obama has that " D " by his name....


yeah, ok...


BTW....how exactly does picking a DC insider, Liberal Democrat cut throat partisan comport with the " I'm going to change Washington " bullshiat we heard for more than a year?

Or did you know he was bullshiatting the entire time?

Yeah, ok....
 
gshepnyc
2008-11-07 5:27:25 PM  

rfant: obammy's western White House


What's your point? He doesn't have a massive estate...excuse me, "ranch"...and so he...what?
 
Pro Zack
2008-11-07 5:27:36 PM  

winterwhile: She pulls, he dances.


she pulls, he talks.
 
amazing_live_seamonkeys
2008-11-07 5:28:26 PM  
There is much Marius in this young Obama I fear.
 
dhudd
2008-11-07 5:29:01 PM  

DamnYankees: Can someone tell me how the hell Barbra Boxer is wacky? She's a damn fine Senator. CA has 2 good ones.


Only to the freepers my man, only to the freepers.
 
Pro Zack
2008-11-07 5:30:27 PM  

Corvus: Obama needs a guy to push the stuff through without it being changed too much.


I thought he wanted change
 
bartink
2008-11-07 5:30:58 PM  

Corvus: Are you kidding me? Have you seen years when the Democrats have a lot of power? It's like herding cats.


That is because we haven't had a candidate with this level of support for his policies. He has a much more clear mandate than anyone since Johnson. Carter was simply not a Republican. Clinton won a three way and then shifted hard right to get a second nod.

This will be different, IMO.
 
fosborb
2008-11-07 5:32:11 PM  

Pro Zack: winterwhile: She pulls, he dances.

she pulls, he talks.


he/she pull dances.
 
Lawnchair
2008-11-07 5:32:12 PM  

rfant: obammy's western White House


Not exactly Obama's 'hood, but so be it. Looks like America. We have a President-elect who is not a fourth-generation billionaire (like the current one).
 
Blathering Idjut
2008-11-07 5:32:15 PM  
The good thing about Obama's new chief of staff: He might be able to get the wackier members of Congress, like Barbara Boxer or Nancy Pelosi, to STFU

Actually, the wackier members of Congress all have either (r)s or (Connecticut for Lieberman) after their names.
 
Macinfarker [OhFark]
2008-11-07 5:32:30 PM  
Libbynomore2

You're Ann Coulter, aren't you?
 
TheRockinDonkey
2008-11-07 5:32:43 PM  

Are you kidding me? Have you seen years when the Democrats have a lot of power? It's like herding cats.

I love this analogy. Spot on.
 
Fart_Machine
2008-11-07 5:32:50 PM  

libbynomore2: BTW....how exactly does picking a DC insider, Liberal Democrat cut throat partisan comport with the " I'm going to change Washington " bullshiat we heard for more than a year?


Because someone with experience and the ability to twist the right arms gets things done more efficiently than a complete outsider.

Are you really this dense?
 
dhudd
2008-11-07 5:33:32 PM  

Pro Zack: Corvus: Obama needs a guy to push the stuff through without it being changed too much.

I thought he wanted change


He wanted change from Bush - is that difficult to understand? I find that VERY simple to understand.
 
Komplex
2008-11-07 5:33:37 PM  
We should note if it was up to Him the 1996 victories wouldn't have happened. Him and his fellow Clintonites (along with the Right Wing and Mainstream Media) laughed at Howard Dean's 50 state strategy.
 
Isitoveryet
2008-11-07 5:34:34 PM  
i am sooooo glad that Obama has won the election and the opposition is tearing itself apart trying to figure out where they went wrong.

those who are still all whining about Libs and dems and making racial remarks about the next President are such a small tiny meaningless few that their comments are worthless and kind of funny.
 
This Amp Goes To 11
2008-11-07 5:34:48 PM  

rfant: obammy's western White House


That's President Obammy, you wretched mass of putrid vomit.
 
MFL
2008-11-07 5:36:07 PM  
quickdraw
Rahm Emmanuel is efficient, ruthless and loyal. He's a brilliant pick.

You mean like Tom Delay or Karl Rove?
 
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