Rhamn Emanuel is part of the problem, not part of the solution

[Atman]

He's just another wealthy DC fat-cat whose life revolves around the cermony, the pomp and circumstance of just being "one of them." His appearance on Hardballs (just ended) confirms that.

He's a Beltway cocktail party boy...he could give a fuck about the American people or the Democratic Party. Oh, I'm sure he THINKS he does...he cares about what his idea of "Democratic Party" is -- the Republican Party with a different logo, and not quite so much war talk. But otherwise, not so much difference.

Our leaders are not leaders. They're Republican wannabees who just wannabee invited to all the cool parties. Fuck Emanuel. He's a feckless pretty-boy who can't let go of the Beltway teat.

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[Justitia]

1. see this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2120240&mesg_id=2120240

[Individualist]

2. He's a DLC member

Let's just look at the cold, hard facts about the DLC and its record. The DLC has pushed, among other things, the war in Iraq and "free" trade policies, using bags of corporate money to buy enough Democratic votes to help Republicans make those policies a reality. They have chastised anyone who has opposed those policies as either unpatriotic or anti-business -- even as a majority of Americans now oppose the war in Iraq, oppose the DLC's business-written trade deals, and are sick of watching America's economy sold out to the highest corporate bidder. Additionally, in brazenly Orwellian fashion, the DLC has also called its extremist agenda "centrist," even though polls show the American public opposes most of their agenda, and supports much of the progressive agenda. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0727-32.htm

[Mojambo]

3. But, but, but... It's a BIG Tent!

The fact of the matter is no tent is going to be big enough when you have a faction like the DLC punching holes in it.

[kenfrequed]

36. I agree

They are more of a problem than the republicans. They actually cause the republicans to win.

They depress party activists and drive us to the Greens with their stupid pro corporate nonsense.

and

They chastise any Democrat for standing up in congress.

[kenfrequed]

41. Oh yes

And they also kill anything resembling populism in the Democratic party by continually softening all of our econmics stances and supporting pro-corporate weasel stuff.

[xchrom]

4. ...

:applause:

[Wiley50]

5. CD-RAHM (Corporate Dickhead- Rich AssHole Madman) n/t

[ChiciB1]

8. And Add Chuck Schumer & You Have Two Of the Same!! Bit Time

DLC, and screwing us royally! I've said this more times than I can count!! And not to be nasty, but just to be correct... THEY LOVE HILLARY!!

[Skidmore]

6. He's "done something personal for the trroops" he sez. This pissed me off.

His idea of doing something personal was to put the pictures of the dead up outside his office and to read their names once in a while. As for really bring them home....

[babylonsister]

7. And he's stoo-pid to boot, as witnessed on Real Time. nt

[jgraz]

10. THAT was shocking to me

I always knew he was a toadying warmongering corporate whore, but I had no idea that he was such a dumb fuck.

[kenfrequed]

37. Well yes

He doesn't know that much, he just feigns competance at 'strategy.' A strategy the frequently fails to get people elected.

Moreover he ducked out on Cornell West and Mos Def and decided to share the stage with people he thought might be a bit easier.

He is a cowardly DLC scum-bucket.

[OzarkDem]

40. He's an "empire builder"

His focus is always on gaining control and expanding power over as many people and systems as possible, and getting rich in the process. Most corporations are full of these types; they're the ones who skip from corporation to corporation, learning little or nothing about the business, only about consolidating power, reorganizing and exploiting the system for their personal profit.

Like most "empire builders" he cares little or nothing about real issues, those are peripheral to his real focus - self-promotion and expanding his control over other Dems in Congress.

[robinlynne]

9. agreed. They call themselves "new democrats".

[Exultant Democracy]

11. His strategy in 2006 for success was to shit on Dean during the entire election.

[Zodiak]

12. Emanuel and Hoyer are both point-guards

in the battle to purge the party of progressive influence.

Schumer is not officially DLC, but he has taken funds from the DLC to travel a few times. Hard to say nowadays because the DLC is hush-hush about its membership.

It is also of note that the DLC was founded in part by Will Marshall.....a PNAC signatory. It certainly raises the question whether such an organization was founded specifically to render the Democratic party defenseless against the neocon push because it certainly seems so by their record.

[KittyWampus]

20. can you give me any kind of back up for the ridiculous statement?

"Hard to say nowadays because the DLC is hush-hush about its membership".

Cause I just went to their website and found name after name after name.

[Zodiak]

44. Here

http://illinois062006.mydd.com/story/2006/5/27/55951/1586

and here

http://www.airamericaplace.com/boards/index.php?s=584ea9f564a9da9f5e0edd2899a01b27&showtopic=20216&pid=179113&st=0&#entry179113

From here, it is clear that the membership list in its entirely is not published by the DLC...it has to be maintained. They also do not publish their donor lists, either. Yes, there are many names on the website, but from what I understand, there is no official "list" containing ALL of the names. They apparently stopped publishing it online a couple of years ago.

Here is the list that is maintained at NNDB.

http://www.nndb.com/group/269/000093987/

...and I appreciate you not using such loaded words ("ridiculous") when asking me to be your research monkey in the future.

[Peregrine Took]

13. Many of us here in Chicago can't stand this huge DLC'r - ugh! n/t

[PassingFair]

14. Nice article here:

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/07/rahm-emanuels-war/

snip>"The freshmen voting most frequently abandoning the Democrats in order to vote with the Republicans are Heath Shuler (personally recruited by Rahm), Jason Altmire (not a Rahm candidate), Joe Donnelly (a Rahm candidate), Brad Ellsworth (a Rahm candidate), Baron Hill (relentlessly pursued by Rahm to run), and Nick Lampson (I hope some Texans will make public how Rahm made this happen; I’m bound to silence)."

Anyone want to check this list against the one that
list the boneheads who voted to censure Stark?

I think I recognize two of the "abSTAINers".

On edit:

How WONDERFUL that the GENIUS, Babylon Sister, has done my work
for me on this (from her post):

"Howie has another interesting statistic — according to Progressive Punch, of the 20 House Democrats who vote with the Bush Administration most frequently in tough roll call votes, 10 are freshmen recruited by Rahm Emanuel. Altmire, Carney, Donnelly, Ellsworth and Shuler are all on that list."

Nod to Sister!

:yourock:

[Atman]

15. Thanks...that is a good article

I never ceased to be amazed at what gets my fellow DUers clicking the rec button. I thought this would drop into obscurity, not wind up on The Greatest.

But I'm heartened to see that so many see this jerkwater, Rahm Emanuel, for what he is; a freakin' tool of the corporatists.

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[KittyWampus]

22. Can anyone tell me if those Democrats are in red or blue districts? Not that facts matter

[PassingFair]

23. Depends on what you consider states like Illinois and Indiana...

Did you read the article?

[KittyWampus]

43. Indiana? That's the heart of 'red' country.

[mondo joe]

24. The same Brad Ellsworth who defeated the repub incumbent?

How much do you think the Repub incumbent would have voted with the Dems?

What about the Repub incumbent Joe Donnelly defeated?

[mmonk]

16. If dems win in 08,

he will claim he engineered it and the job they have been able to do in controlling the "liberals" when they oppose bush fascism too vigorously.

[NoPasaran]

17. What's "Rhamn Emanuel"?

Some kind of instant soup?

[scarletwoman]

18. k & r -- if the Democrats keep people like him in positions of power, then it's time

to form a new party.

sw

[marmar]

19. Rahm, Steny and the rest of the Corporatist whores are a huge pox.....

I believe we'd see a better Nancy Pelosi if they weren't around.

[Horse with no Name]

32. I believe you are correct

They have her marginalized and I HONESTLY think that she doesn't want everyone to know how WEAK she really is.

[spanone]

21. i agree he was blabbering, incoherent.....sound bite after sound bite

[illinoisprogressive]

25. He is a dlc shill. he was so full of shit on hardball tonight.

[Hawkowl]

26. Arrogant AND Stupid

Great combination. Not to mention he doesn't give a shit about the constitution.

[calimary]

27. He said a whole lot - and said NOTHING.

My husband watched that, seeing him for the first time, and he was extremely underwhelmed.

[leftchick]

28. Emmanuel is the reason for the bush dogs

expect many more running for office in 2008......



read this. it will make you puke!


The Enforcer
Rep. Rahm Emanuel is leading the Democratic charge to retake the House next year. Will his old-school combativeness rub off on his more timid colleagues?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/

Now, as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Emanuel has taken on his biggest challenge yet: to win back the House of Representatives after more than a decade of Republican control. To pull it off, the two-term congressman will have to overcome odds far greater than those the GOP faced when Newt Gingrich engineered his historic takeover in 1994. Back then, according to a study by the National Committee for an Effective Congress, 117 seats were "marginal" -- that is, close enough to be considered competitive. Last year, thanks in large part to Republican-friendly redistricting, the number of close races shrank to only thirty-four.

Over lunch near his office in Chicago, Emanuel previews his strategy to win the fifteen seats needed to retake the House. Unlike others in the Democratic leadership who seem reluctant to criticize the president and are fearful of their own party's grass roots, Emanuel knows it will take an aggressive, all-fronts effort to prevail in next year's midterm elections. Democrats, he says, will have to raise record amounts of campaign cash, challenge the Republicans in dozens of districts, offer concrete alternatives to Bush's failed policies -- and above all, hammer home a clear and consistent message.

"We're the party of change," Emanuel tells me. "We're the party of a new direction -- a break from rampant cronyism and the status quo. Period."

If that message has a familiar ring, it may be because Republicans used essentially the same formula to seize control of the House a decade ago. Indeed, given his hard-charging reputation, Emanuel often elicits comparisons to the man who led the GOP to victory in 1994. "Rahm is the Democrats' Newt Gingrich," says Bruce Reed, who served with Emanuel in the Clinton White House. "He understands how much ideas matter, he always knows his message, he takes no prisoners and he only plays to win."

Other Clinton veterans are even more pointed about Emanuel's assets. "He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala, who served with Emanuel on Clinton's staff. "The Democratic Party is full of Rhodes scholars -- Rahm is a road warrior. He's just what the Democrats need to fight back."

[democrank]

29. Rhamn will give up the fight when

we`re one big giant family. Republicans and Republican-Lites.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

30. rahm alama ding dong

[lonestarnot]

31. What is feckless?

[porphyrian]

33. You can say that twice. - n/t

[Horse with no Name]

34. I cannot stand that worthless shitstain.

He is destroying America.

[Hydra]

35. Rahm and the other people who are undermining our party

are doing so by claiming that if they weren't there, we couldn't win.

Bull. Election fraud is the name of the game- remember when we used to threaten to invade countries for "election irregularities"? Now we do it ourselves and tell countries like Mexico to do it to keep leftist policies from coming to fruition.

Why? Because our methods WORK. Their's just such blood, sweat and tears from the workers to fuel the lives of the idle dimwits.

We need them like a hole in the head- NO MORE RIGGED ELECTIONS!

[dysfunctional press]

38. I'm happy to say that that particular dlc FUCKWAD is no longer my rep in congress...

i moved to dennis hastert's district.

if i'm going to have a corrupt repuke as my congressman, i prefer to have one that's at least up-front about it.

[Richard Steele]

39. Hear hear! Rahm is a repub-enabling scumbag of the lowest sort. nm

[Blue_In_AK]

42. I can't stand him.

He's a terrible spokesperson for us.