Ryan Lizza has a good profile of Rahm Emanuel in the New Yorker (The Gatekeeper).
The whole article is good, but I liked this part:
“They have never worked the legislative process,” Emanuel said of critics like the Times columnist Paul Krugman, who argued that Obama’s concessions to Senate Republicans—in particular, the tax cuts, which will do little to stimulate the economy—produced a package that wasn’t large enough to respond to the magnitude of the recession. “How many bills has he passed?”
It reminds me of Stalin’s critique of the Pope during World War II. (It’s both a very bad and a very good metaphor. 🙂 )
Emanuel will move the troops up the field, but he will do it in his own way. He knows how.
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