{"id":190654,"date":"2009-11-05T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/05\/the-rundown-on-rahmbo\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:27:00","slug":"the-rundown-on-rahmbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/05\/the-rundown-on-rahmbo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rundown on Rahmbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Hamshire has a rundown of Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s history, and it shows that now only is he on the wrong side of every issue on the merits, <a href=\"http:\/\/fdlaction.firedoglake.com\/2009\/11\/04\/lessons-learned-in-va-and-nj-is-rahm-emanuel-orchestrating-2010-democratic-massacre\/\">he also creates political disasters for the party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is very good reading, where she shows that he was on the wrong side of NAFTA, the Iraq war, healthcare, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The money quote is:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Rahm doesn\u2019t think about Democratic turnout.   His reputation for \u201cwinning a Democratic majority\u201d rests on his ability as a self-promoter to take credit for victories that happened in spite of him.  The truth is that his \u201cact more like Republicans\u201d strategy just hasn\u2019t worked out, and we\u2019re getting whiffs of the disaster it spells for Democrats who follow it. <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">[She is referring to Criegh Deeds frantic run away from national Democrats, as well as the poor showing of pro-War Dems in 2006]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.  This guy has a history of failing upward that rivals Dick Cheney&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Hamshire has a rundown of Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s history, and it shows that now only is he on the wrong side of every issue on the merits, he also creates political disasters for the party. It is very good reading, where she shows that he was on the wrong side of NAFTA, the Iraq war, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1002,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-good-writing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}