Thu, 11/20/2008 - 8:57pm — lambert
People would do well to heed Emanuel's message, lest they get a fist in the mouth or a dead fish in the mail. What's emerging from Chicago is a clear preference for toughness and people [like?] that are forceful and smart enough to ram home Obama's priorities.
So now I have to check my physical mail as well?
Hey, only kidding! Where's your sense of humor?
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Yawn.
I'm shakin' in mah boots here.
BTW,
what in heck ARE Obama's priorities?
We already know
All we have to do is look at his legislative record:
1. Big Money (the bailout)
2. Executive Power (FISA)
and his priorities are not:
1. Single payer (though he may sign it)
2. Help for homeowners (though he may sign it).
In other words, there's been a change at the wheel of the bus, but the same people are still under it.
And the speculative leaks
Are infuriating. They tantalize, or enrage, and then, some are rejected or accepted. It's designed to keep eveyone guessing.
Considered for DHS: Janet Napolitano, who has good points and bad. Deploy Nationaly Guard on US soil, for immigrants, bad. Former US and State attorney, as well as a governor. Would be an interesting counterpoint to Biden, since she faced off with him over Anita Hill.
Com-Sec: Penny Pritzker, cool another woman, seems like this might be an attempt to kiss and make up. Then again, she's allegedly taken herself out of the running.
Yet,
The Scary Smart One, continues the case for Hillary for State. Since Obama seems like he's not holding a grudge against Lieberman, I'll assume he isn't holding one against Clinton either. And she is in a unique position to shape the course for the future. And now that Waxman beat out Dingelll for the Energy and Commerce Committee chair.
I must admit, I'm feeling a tad bit hopeful. Just a smidge.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
which messages? "on GOP: "We welcome their ideas""
-- Emanuel on GOP: "We welcome their ideas" -- http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1...
and i'll hold my breath for him welcoming my ideas--or any liberals, ok?
What does he mean by "universal?"
I know Obama frequently used that word to misrepresent his plan as universal when, in fact, it was not so I'm not sure if Rahm is talking about actual UHC or Obama "universal." I want to believe it's the former since Baucus signed onto something that is said to be basically Clinton's plan, but I'm just not sure if that's what Obama is going for.
I, too, don't know what to believe from Obama. However, I do know this: the hell he would have been Wall Street's choice if there wasn't something in it for them.
With regards to the financial disaster: why in God's name hasn't Obama named his Treasury Secretary yet? That, to me, is the most important pick and should have been done as quickly as possible. And why hasn't he pushed hard as hell for rescuing homeowners? That's one of the best strategies for tending to the failing economy right now and yet he pushed for one of the worst failures: the Senate version of the bailout, which was even worse than the House's.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't announce...
... some sort of homeowner relief program very early on. Devil's in the details, of course, but there'll probably be something or the whiff of something.
Very good question on the Treasury Secretary
Do you suppose Mr. Andrea Mitchell is still available?
Timothy Geithner for Treasury?
I guess.
Fist in the mouth?
Is that a variation of with us or against us?
Blazing fist of putty
just ask Joe Lieberman!
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I'm not such a bad guy once you get to know me.
Oh, Noes!
Obama's gonna' punch me in the mouth! That's an epic line in all of its absurdity. Remember the whole "Obama's gonna' punch you in the mouth" moment he had in the Senate with Lieberman, where he reportedly physically confronted Lieberman? Oh, and his time in the state senate where he approached an opponent to beat him up?
Yeah, if those are the kind of staged shows of threat, those that cross him really have nothing to worry about. You should be afraid of him only when he gets quiet and goes underground with his attacks to let some else bring them into the mainstream like what he did against Palin and Clinton and possibly Edwards.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...