Breaking: Rahmbo Runs from Obama’s Sinking Ship
Earlier today White House spokesman Robert Gibbs refused to confirm or deny reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving that post to run for mayor of Chicago. Gibbs did confirm that there will be a major announcement involving President Obama in the East Room of the White House Friday morning at 11:05 a.m. EDT. There’s even word on who will be the interim chief of staff. That would be senior adviser Pete Rouse, who has been with the president since his one term in the U.S. Senate.
Emanuel’s departure comes on the heels of word that message man David Axelrod is also leaving soon to run Obama’s 2012 campaign, and on the heels of departures among the president’s economics team.
Emanuel was probably the most pragmatic member of the Obama inner circle. His departure is sure to increase the disconnect between the White House and Congressional Democrats, who increasingly see the president as a tarnished leader out of touch with the damage he is doing to his own party. It’s also likely to increase the influence of Valerie Jarrett. That likelihood explains Dana Milbank’s insidery piece, which appeared in the Washington Post on Wednesday.
With the absence of Emanuel, Jarrett’s primary rival, and Axelrod, Obama’s other staff confidant, her ability to exert her influence in any matter of her choosing would go largely unchecked.
And that’s probably not a good thing for Obama.
As the senior adviser in charge of “public engagement,” she has been the White House official responsible for maintaining relationships with the business community and with liberal interest groups — two of the most conspicuous areas of failure for the White House during Obama’s first two years.
She’s also the one who arranged the hiring of social secretary Desiree Rogers, only to cut her friend loose when Rogers was tarnished by the party-crashing Salahis at a state dinner in November.
Jarrett and Obama both claim that their relationship amounts to a kind of mind-meld, which helps explain why her real estate scandals haven’t put a scratch on her career in this White House.
The fact is, to the extent that Emanuel’s departure increases Jarrett’s influence, is the extent to which this White House will continue to lose support. Jarrett is a a far-left academic and activist with no demonstrable grasp of economics or policy making. Her advice is likely only to lead Obama farther to the left.
Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod … these high-level departures usually occur at three points in a president’s time in office: At the mid-point after he has been re-elected, at the mid-point of a second term as his popularity wanes and advisers move on with their careers, or when a presidency is in real trouble. With his poll numbers flagging and Democrats facing a red sea they can’t cross in November, it’s not hard to see that Obama is facing Door #3. And he’ll be facing it without the close services of several of the top aides who shaped his successful run for the White House.
What are the chances that Emanuel has a chance to be elected Mayor of Chicago? It seems to me in any sane universe, he would be so tainted to the whole Obama Presidency disaster that NO one would ever cast a vote for him for anything, at all, whatsoever. But I keep reading out Chicago is notoriously corrupt, so how much would buying a mayor seat be worth there?
Remember, this is CHICAGO we’re speaking about.
I realize this is Chicago we’re talking about, but good sources there say that Rahm Emmanuel is INTENSELY disliked in Chicago, and that very unsavory revelations about him will most definitely come out if he attempts to run. That said, these sources also say that he is so arrogant and so tone deaf about what other people think of him, that he probably will leave the White House, run for Mayor and then, hopefully, be left on the ash heap of Chicago political history. We can only hope.
Rats; sinking ship.
I have an idea. How about replacing them with people with SOME experience outside government or academia? I’m just sayin…
How about just replacing them with people instead of more alien life forms?
Kapo Rhambo has been a pox on our Jewish/Israel house for years,but most especially since his days in the White House.Good riddance to stinking rubbish!
Now, excuse me for saying this, but the mostly liberal elitists Jews in Chicago deserve him as a Mayor. He will most assuredly follow in the corrupt ways of Chicago, a bastion of thuggery and a cesspool of stinking fish.
Dead fish Rhambo returns home.Delicious…
This is a very silly nonstory. Rahm is leaving to run for Mayor, and made his interest in that position known log ago. If Axelrod is leaving to work on Obama’s campain, that is not abandoning him. How can you live with yourself after writing tripe like this?
Nobody leaves the WH before the first midterms to go get ready to run his former boss’ campaign. If that is actually the case, they are anticipating a revolt in the party and a strong challenge for the nomination. Should that happen, he should just go quietly back to Chicago where Rahmbo might be able to give him a new job.
It strikes me that the story is not Rahm’s departure, but the aftermath: Jarrett in charge.
Has anyone considered the very real possibility that Obama hasn’t been in charge, and that, with an iron fist, Nazi Pelosi has been setting agendas and running the country since January, 2007? Think about it. Her fingerprints have been found at the scene of every crime that has occurred.
That reminds me: With the midterm elections approaching, isn’t it time for Obama to take another vacation, and to again get out of Pelosi’s way?
Barack Obama; our country’s first sock puppet to live in the White House.
You’re precisely correct. Search: “Gorbachev from the Presidium to the Presidio” and read the extent to which comrade Pelosi has been complicit in undermining U.S. sovereignty to hasten our subservience to The New World Order under Global Governace.
Will Rahm be criticized for leaving early like Sarah Palin did?
Well of course not because he is a Democrat and they can do anything short of murder and possibly even that Mary Jo Kopechne and Senator Ted Kennedy. Or Bill Clinton and BJ’s in the oval office with a 21 year old inter4n…nah he is good to go cause he is a democrat they can do anything they wish at anytime at all!
Hey, wait a minute. That was different. She left office because . . . well because she wanted to . . . that was different, wasn’t it. Rahm’s not quitting. He’s . . . well . . . it’s different . . . he’s, uh, hey, that was different.
Valerie; now you are top of the advisory pile here’s your first brilliant idea:- send Obama to campaign in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. All those races need a firm push from Obama.
Oh Valerie, I love it when you look confused.
I wonder if sweet Valerie will get a blanket pardon when she finishes screwing up the White House. On the other hand, maybe she’s doing us a favor by pushing Obama farther and farther left, thus ensuring that he won’t be reelected in 2012, and maybe even giving the Dems the impetus to challenge his renomination.
Rush had an interesting point today about all the rats jumping from the SS Whitehouse. To paraphrase; nobody in Hussein’s staff ever believed in their wildest dreams they could have achieved so much of the Marxist agenda in so little time. Now they can go back to Harvard (Summers), Berkeley (Romer) and Chicago (Rahm) a few years early and get on with their lives. So they’re not so much leaving in disgrace, but leaving to go do damage to some other institution.
Tea Party needs to come up with a mayoral candidate for Chicago. Make it interesting. Maybe someone with the last name of Ness, rather than Daley.
Valerie Jarrett unchecked means Obama will double down more than ever on everything post-November midterms; Jarrett, like Obama, is a legend in her own warped mind. Obama will never get rid of Jarrett since she is the reason for him being in the White House.
Somewhere I read that Rahm has to first buy property in the city of Chicago. I am so excited I have a chill running down my leg. Sorta like the Arkansas woman becoming the U.S. Senator from New York. I am still dumbstruck how a voter can rationalize voting for someone that no longer lives there. We have a congressional race here and one candidate is from the county next to the district and you would think he came from Mars. But he is from the R party, no wonder!
Mayor of Chicago is a pretty powerful position. It will be interesting to see how Rahm is received. Remember Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor? Mayor Jane Byrne preceded him. Unfortunately for Jane there was a big snow storm the winter before the election and the streets weren’t cleared fast enough to suit the Democrat machine. Washington won the primary with a plurality in a 3-way race. He ran against a Jewish Republican whose name escapes me. This was a tough choice for Chicago. Washington won but it certainly wasn’t by a usual “Daley” landslide. I wouldn’t bet the farm on it but it’s possible Chicago might be wising up and may less than receptive to Rahm.
Chicago is utterly corrupt politically. I grew up in Michigan immediately across the Lake from Chicago. I grew up on Chicago TV. As far back as the 60s Chicago made Detroit look like a bastion of honesty and virtue.
Axelrod leaving to work on the 2012 election? Against who? The Sect. of State?
No wonder the rats are abandoning ship Obama loves GIVING advice but never seems to think HE needs it the NARCISSIST.He loves Mohammedans so much but dont you dare insinuate that he HUSSEIN, born to a BRITISH Muslim father adopted by an INDONESIAN Muslim Stepfather schooled and brought up as a Muslim (and as an INDONESIAN CITIZEN which he HAD to be to attend STATE school in Jakarta) , is a Muslim . I mean what possible evidence do you have LOL. He also loves ILLEGAL Immigrants and wants them all to be Legal DEEM’o’crat voters even his own ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT Aunty. He also thinks like a Christian, well HE thinks he thinks like a Christian but he quotes the OLD TESTAMENT instead and does that incorrectly, and wants you to love your neighbours and your Brothers and Sisters, except for him of course and HIS half brother who lives in a mud hut in Kenya with no sanitation and electricity on $20 a YEAR .
I will never forget a comment Valerie Jarrett made shortly after the election of B. Obama. She said to the reporter interviewing her, “We are ready to rule from Day One.” Later she tried to obfuscate her remark, when questioned, by saying, “I meant ready to roll”.
That Freudian revelation has haunted me ever since.
This is a woman to be feared.
I will never forget what Valerie Jarrett told a reporter after the election of B. Obama. She said, “We are ready to rule from Day One.” Later she attempted to obfuscate this remark by saying, “I meant ready to roll.”
This extraordinarily chilling (Freudian) revelation has haunted me ever since.
This is a woman to fear.
With daily revelations of the aspirations of WH staff, coupled with the disgraceful behaviour of Congress – leaving town without passing a budget and leaving the path for taxs hikes wide open, just to name a couple – not to mention the myriad other chaotic happenings; my question is this:
Will we be surprised when foreign entities actively participating in the drive to ruin the U.S.A. make their move to further cripple us so that we cannot stand with Israel, who’s fate they have so arrogantly decided to be complete annihilation?
I think we better be watching our ‘blind side’ since our ‘gatekeepers’ seem to be sleeping.
Ram is a scumbag and it is too bad he is leaving because while he is there he shows the absolute contempt with which this President holds the people of this great country. If this loser had been in any other administration, you would have never heard the end of it. The only good thing is that he will likely be replaced by an even more scummy communist soclialist leftist radical meat head looking to change America into a totalitarian state. The media is a disgrace. The President is who he has been hanging with for the past 25 years–marxist anti American scumbags. Who cares what this turkey does and if the people of Chicago are dumb enough to elect him, well that says all you need to know about loserville Illinois!!
Jarrett’s career is a form of reparations. Even though she’s half Iranian, she qualifies in self-adopted black “one-drop rule” as African American, and so this know-nothing, elitist, leftist clown lives the life of inside access and corporate board power, having never held a job, as defined by working for a living.
She’s the black Sugar Rautbord, but with a Stalinist pedigree.
My statement is that the Liberal Media including the Time/Warner/CNN and Swampland colossus selected Obama and had Him elected because they saw shiploads of money in it for them.
The small rats are leaving. My question is how long before the Time Ragazine et al [Joe Klein likes to use the description] jump ship or change their allegiances?
Obama has lost his shine and the large Media is not going to go under with him. Any bets on that?
Is he running or did he get everything he wanted? We al know his comments about forcing us to do “community service”,and Obamas comment about a civilian “Army”bigger than our own military. Well,they passed a bill that includes these things in them. Maybe Rambo is satisfied and wants to move to Chicago and destroy that area.
Can Obama pardon himself at the end of his term?
Would love to hear the Pillow talk between Jarrett and Obama as we all know; “Birds of a feather, flock together”
The shameful crimes committed by Rahm are so profound and disdainful that they would break the hearts of 1,000,000 Jewish mothers. I hope he’s rewarded with failure in every venture & endeavor he pursues, a true American disgrace.
I like Rahm Emanuel. In every position that he has had, he has done the job that he was paid to do, and he has performed his duties well. Sometimes in life, our enemies are more admirable than our friends are.
It may be, as in a mosh-pit, when everyone withdraws, . . . except, the President still holds high trump—he can have the treasury print US Treasury notes, and those others? They’ll be left playing penny-ante poker, in a corner of a small dimly lit room, who cares where on the bad side of town, . . .
The ‘Boney Ballerina’ who dances with fishes is leaving the Obama regime to begin his own personal regime as Mayor of the ‘Windy City’! And Before leaving the White House as Chief of Staff, Rhambo the ‘Boney Ballerina’, sent all of his enemies a newspaper about his intentions!
‘Hizzoner’ is retiring , sorta, but The Daley Political Machine WILL NOT be retiring, and the title ‘Da Mayor’ will always be in the background running the store even if Rhambo is elected of mayor of Chicago, the training ground for corrupt governance!
The imposter, who is now in the White House, graduated from Community Organiser to State Senator, to Illinois Senator to TOTUS…OVERNITE! Great place to begin as a professional, political, parasite to learn the skills of being corrupt and how to lie and smile at the same time.
I think it was on WND I was reading that Rahm was not eligible to be mayor in Chicago, because Illinois law requires you to live in the state at least one year and Rahm resides in DC. Is this true?