Emanuel Wields Power Freely, and Faces the Risks »
Posted By tehranchik 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsSeven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Mr. Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a generation. But with his prominence in almost everything important going on in Washington comes a high degree of risk.
As the principal author of Mr. Obama’s do-everything-at-once strategy, he stands to become a figure of consequence in his own right if the administration stabilizes the economy and financial markets, overhauls the health care system and winds down one war while successfully prosecuting another.
If things do not go well — and right now Mr. Obama’s political popularity is declining, his health care legislation is under conservative assault, the budget deficit is at an eye-popping level and Afghanistan remains volatile — it is Mr. Emanuel whose job will be on the line before Mr. Obama’s.
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the only mention of israel in this is to state that rahm is opposed to new settlements.
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what a joke.
the rest of the article tried to make him sound human. i'm skeptical.
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