Rahm Emanuel has accepted to be the new “Chief of Staff” otherwise known as the “White House Enforcer”.
He only has nine fingers and it’s rumored he lost the tenth to a Syrian tank while serving in the Israeli Army, however the truth is he lost it less glamourously in a meat slicer.
An interesting fact is that his dad, Benjamin M. Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician, in the 1940’s was a member of the Irgun. The Irgun was a Zionist group that attacked Palestinians and the British. They managed to kill 90 people in a hotel bombing in 1946 and massacred some people in Deir Yassin. It’s believed Benjamin would pass secret codes for the Irgun.
We must keep in mind we did what Rahm Emanuel’s dad did too, but for us it’s called the American Revolution.
Obama advisers say he likes and trusts Emanuel and believes his mastery of Capitol Hill will help speed his proposals at a time when money is tight and the nation's problems are great. Emanuel has a hard-nosed style and is known for aggressively working the press. He has working relationships with many congressional Republicans, including Adam Putnam a rising GOP star who said after his reelection this week that he plans to leave his No. 3 post in the party's House leadership. The runner-up for the post was former Sen. Tom Daschle who may take another senior post in the administration. Emanuel is known as a centrist and a pragmatic dealmaker. Under Clinton, he helped engineer passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is opposed by the party's left wing.
He only has nine fingers and it’s rumored he lost the tenth to a Syrian tank while serving in the Israeli Army, however the truth is he lost it less glamourously in a meat slicer.
An interesting fact is that his dad, Benjamin M. Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician, in the 1940’s was a member of the Irgun. The Irgun was a Zionist group that attacked Palestinians and the British. They managed to kill 90 people in a hotel bombing in 1946 and massacred some people in Deir Yassin. It’s believed Benjamin would pass secret codes for the Irgun.
We must keep in mind we did what Rahm Emanuel’s dad did too, but for us it’s called the American Revolution.
Obama advisers say he likes and trusts Emanuel and believes his mastery of Capitol Hill will help speed his proposals at a time when money is tight and the nation's problems are great. Emanuel has a hard-nosed style and is known for aggressively working the press. He has working relationships with many congressional Republicans, including Adam Putnam a rising GOP star who said after his reelection this week that he plans to leave his No. 3 post in the party's House leadership. The runner-up for the post was former Sen. Tom Daschle who may take another senior post in the administration. Emanuel is known as a centrist and a pragmatic dealmaker. Under Clinton, he helped engineer passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is opposed by the party's left wing.
There are tons of Rahm Emanuel stories out there. The best one is that he sent out a decomposing two and a half foot fish to a pollster who displeased him. He also was known to hang up on political contributors in Chicago during the Mayor’s race because he said he was embarrassed to accep
t $5,000 checks because they were $25,000 type of guys. However, the best story is pre-Bill Clinton. It was in Little Rock, Arkansas where Emanuel and George Stephanopoulos, Mandy Grunwald and other aides at Doe’s, the campaign hangout, discussed revenge on democrats, republicans, and members of the press, who had wronged them during the 1992 campaign. Suddenly Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and as those who were there remember it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table and screamed “dead!”. All jokes aside his bad temper is blamed on the failure of his career as a ballet dancer.
Here he is with his adorable children.
Pelosi having a herbal essences moment!
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