Boehner Assails Emanuel Pick

Oh, that hurtful partisanship! How will the delicate Republicans survive?

The real irony is that Boehner thinks this is irnoic. You can't make this stuff up.

craig: you're only a tax cheat if the IRS says you're a tax cheat. if the IRS accepts his classification of his home and of his expenditures after actually looking at his documentation, why exactly do you think you know better *without* having done so?

On the contrary, Lindsay Graham (R-SC), one of John McCain's right hand men, praised the pick. Emanuel and Graham worked to set the date for the presidential debates, and completed the process in record time.

Democratic strategist Paul Begala, describes Emanuel's aggressive style as a "cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache."

I can't wait for all the books to start coming out in 2009-2010 from people in Obama's past going to cash in on their dealings with Obama.
The Rev. Wright book entitled: "He Sat in my Church for 20 Years"
or the Bill Ayers book, "1984-2008; My years with the 44th President".

Yeah right. Sooooo, Bush wasn't partisan then? Rove didn't try to partition? They didn't try to win by a 50.1% divide the country process? Whatever. "Elections have consequences" and "I earned political capital and I intend to spend it" were phrases uttered by the republicans when they had to steal the last two elections to barely win and then they claim a mandate. Now that someone actually does have a mandate the R's are spineless little jellyfishes that should just be stepped on and squished like a ripe slug.

Obama wants to work with people who will be straight with him, not tell him what they think he wants to hear. Emanuel will do that.

New White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is a tax cheat.

There seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on his home in Chicago.

Posted by: Will Stanton | Nov 6, 2008 4:10:23 PM

Sounds like the knives are out and so early in the game. Obama can't even make one Presidential decision that directly affects the country until January 20th. Is there no peace? Give the guy a little space.

New White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is a tax cheat.

There seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on his home in Chicago.

Why wouldn't 4228 North Hermitage property owners Rahm Emanuel and wife Amy Rule pay property taxes? Everyone else in the neighborhood pays $5,000 -$6,000 a year in taxes.

One reason may be because Emanuel and Rule declared their 4228 North Hermitage home as the office location for their personal non-profit foundation called the "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Foundation". As the non-profit's headquarters, their home could be exempt from paying property taxes.

Who does the "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Foundation" list as members? Him and his wife.
Who do they "donate" money to? They pay the tuition for their children's private schooling and call it a "donation".

Hope and change.
President Elect Obama - himself a connected, Chicago insider who has benefited from questionable land deals - may find it difficult to explain why his very own Chicago-based chief of staff doesn't pay property taxes like the "little guy" he claims to represent.
The sludge starts backing up in the Obama White House.

I kinda see what your saying Sea, Santa Barbara. I didn't know all that stuff about Rahm, but he is just a Chief of Staff and probably (hopefully)won't be in policy making. It is kind of scary that someone who is more inline with Israeli Likud party has a voice so close to the president, we can only hope Obama will do the right thing in regards to the Israel /Palestinian problem

Regarding Obama's claims as a post partisan politician, "Words, just words?" You betcha!

The fact that Boehner doesn't like the pick speaks volumes and makes me trust the pick even more.

Boehner is the leader...Blunt was the Whip, he resigned that position today. Rep. Eric Cantor is the likely Whip.

As for Emanuel, Boehner is absolutely correct in what he said.

Minor point, but isn't Boehner the minority leader and Roy Blunt the whip? Not that I'd mind in the least seeing Boehner demoted.

Even Bush is rather graciously comporting himself in public statements about making a smooth transition, no matter what he might be saying privately. I would think the minority leadership, especially with their numbers dwindling, would want to extend some goodwill as our president-elect assembles his team. There's plenty of time for pitched battles later. In the meantime, a general spirit of bipartisanship might help the country get out of this mess.

You know what Emmaunel would probably tell Boehner if he was in close proximity? hmm? He'd tell him to go [expletive] himself. After all they say his favorite word is the F-word. They also call him Rahmbo if they doesn't give you a sense of how hard core he is.

I suspect Boehner has had some bad experiences with Rahm or else he probably wouldn't be too vocal about it. It's kind of funny. Boehner's intimidated, and with good reason.

If Boehner has problems with Obama's pick for his chief of staff that says to me that this is a good pick. Boehner has a strong record of lock step support of Bush and far right conservative positions, middle of the road and common sense be damned. Obama was elected for change. Get used to it Boehner. Oh, and Obama will be a lot more open to listening to opposing thoughts and ideas than Bush ever was and a lot more pleasant in his approach to dealing with such thoughts and ideas. I doubt if we will hear much in the way of talk about “spending political capital” as Bush so ineloquently did. If Obama totally screws up like Bush has we can boot him out in 4 years. If he proves to be a real asset in roll as our President he’ll get 4 more years. It’s that simple. I am betting though that Sarah doesn’t get to trot out her hockey mom persona again until 2016.

Sheesh, chill out. The Chief of Staff is *supposed* to be a tough guy, who can make Cabinet Secretaries back down and keep the Prez on schedule. Rahm sounds like a good fit for that.
How about we wait and see who Obama picks for the actual policy-making positions? I expect there will be plenty of things worth getting angry about then, not now.

A bit ago on Faux News they were proudly proclaiming that Rahm Emanuel took ballet lessons when he was little. (Take that!) A new and improved Republican party. Takes me back to when kids would yell "Billy has ring worm" on the playground. For a party with a plethora of geezers its amazing how few have actually grown up.

I voted for Obama and support him, but this pick scares me. How can you fix the Israeli / Palestinian problem if you have such a strong voice against it and for the Israeli side to that much of a degree? The guy served in the Israeli military when he could of served in the US military his father was a part of an well defined Israeli terrorist group within Israel itself. I hope he picks a strong voice against Rahm to have a balance of opinions fed to him.

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No one can take anything that Republican's say seriously because they have ruined this country!