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Congressional Republicans are whelping that Obama has shown his hand to be a liar because he has brought on Rahm Emanuel as his first staff appointment. Emanuel, the grand strategest who brought about the 2006 Democrat surge and is arguably the Democrat’s Karl Rove, has a reputation for brusque, bull in the china shop politics. They argue that this shows that Obama hs no inclination to run a truly bipartisan government.
Obama’s choice signals two messages. One, he is laser-focused on pushing through changes. He found the sharpest, smartest point man, who speaks fluent House. Two, his is not a soft, push-over administration, like the Carter years - the memory of which, in my opinion, is stain that will take the Clinton administration and this one to remove. If Obama had chosen some mousy Harvard don or Silicon Valley vaporware executive, then the Republicans would ready their knives for an easy meal of this President. The hypocrisy of the Republicans to whine about sharp elbows and an exclusionary president is coy.
