Washington – Report: Rahm Emanuel Expected To Quit White House

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    Washington – Insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to “bang heads together” to get policy pushed through.

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    Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term.

    Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one of most high profile jobs in US politics.

    “I would bet he will go after the midterms,” said a leading Democratic consultant in Washington. “Nobody thinks it’s working but they can’t get rid of him – that would look awful. He needs the right sort of job to go to but the consensus is he’ll go.”

    An official from the Bill Clinton era said that “no one will be surprised” if Mr Emanuel left after the midterm elections in November, when the Democratic party will battle to save its majorities in the house of representatives and the senate.

    It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed between pragmatic Mr Emanuel, a veteran in Congress where he was known for driving through compromises, and the idealistic inner circle who followed Mr Obama to the White House.

    His abrasive style has rubbed some people the wrong way, while there has been frustration among Mr Obama’s closest advisers that he failed to deliver a smooth ride for the president’s legislative that his background promised.

    “It might not be his fault, but the perception is there,” said the consultant, who asked not to be named. “Every vote has been tough, from health care to energy to financial reform.

    “Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm’s job.”

    There were sharp differences over health care reform, with Mr Emanuel arguing that public hostility about cost should have forced them into producing a scaled down package. Mr Obama and advisers including David Axelrod, the chief strategist, and Valerie Jarrett, a businesswoman and mentor from Chicago, decided to push through with grander legislation anyway.

    Mr Emanuel has reportedly told friends that his role as White House chief of staff was “only an eighteen month job” because of its intensity.

    Regarded as the most demanding after president, it involves controlling the president’s agenda, enforcing White House message discipline as well as liaising with Congress.

    His departure would regarded as another sign of how Mr Obama’s presidency has been far more troubled than expected.

    Mr Emanuel has privately expressed a readiness to run for mayor of Chicago, which is also his home town though he was never part of the Obama set and did not endorse the then senator in the Democratic primary in 2008.

    That would however depend on Mayor Richard Daley stepping down when he is up for re-election in 2011.

    The chief obstacle to taking the White House job originally was doubts about moving his three children from Chicago. According to another former Clinton official, he has let friends know that he is “very sensitive to the idea that he is not a good father for having done this”.

    One of Washington’s more colourful characters, Mr Emanuel is the son of Jewish immigrants and was an accomplished ballet dancer at school. He served in the Israeli Defence Force in the 1991 Gulf War.

    The White House did not respond to a request for comment.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It’s very rare for any Chief of Staff to stay for even a 4-year term.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Obama is going down the Tubes!!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    i pitty Emanuel, after all that he gave for this Administration, he took a lot of hits, and a lot of personal embarrasments.

    this is how the Low Moral Liberal treats his friends.

    He gave the perception that he was above all, he liked the idea of playing with power. now he is a victim to people in his par.

    Just my thoughts..

    M.E. Analyst
    M.E. Analyst
    13 years ago

    If he leaves:
    1)White house will become way more liberal and also antiisrael
    2)White house will lose their heads so fast!!!! He is pragmatic. If not for him healthcare and financial regulation would have never passed! These libs are so stupid and drunk of power that they don’t realize what rahm did for them.I predict the white house will look worse than bush and carter once he is out. Not a single legistlative agreement will be signed iyh! Can’t wait!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It would be a shame if the President lost the counsel and advice of Emanuel so soon into his 8 years in office. While not universally loved, he is nonetheless a pragmatic and realistic advisor who has served to moderate many of the Administration’s positions. Such an ehrliche yid will be missed if he were to leave but the desire to be closer to his family is understandable.

    ShatzMatz
    ShatzMatz
    13 years ago

    I was not aware that the IDF participated in the Gulf War.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    “Mr Emanuel is the son of Jewish immigrants and was an accomplished ballet dancer at school. He served in the Israeli Defence Force in the 1991 Gulf War.”
    I’ve never seen 3 facts az bizzare as these in one paragraph. No wonder the guy is a little tzimusht in the head.

    glatekup
    glatekup
    13 years ago

    Good riddance!!!! May he go together with helen thomas.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    The statement that Rahm Emanuel served in the Israeli Defense Force during the 1991 Gulf War was inaccurate. He was never in the IDF; rather, Emanuel was a civilian volunteer for the IDF, at that time, helping to maintain equipment.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Rahm is no fool . He knows when he is not wanted .

    Go now!
    Go now!
    13 years ago

    Why wait?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    So now Obama can say he “inherited” all the problems from Rahm the Jew

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Maybe the bar mitzva for his son in Israel really hit home and now realizes that if he sticks with obama he will be going against his real homeland…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Reply to 2 what are you smoking? 8 years! hello! Bizt ingatzen meshugeh, and 2 erliche yid! what erlich ? what yid ? as I said before that stuff ur taking must be realy strong. By the way and this is my opinion you heard it here first is that they are seting him up as a scape goat once they loose the midterms, now when rush steals this theary tomorow you’ll know where he gig it from.

    Wiseman
    Wiseman
    13 years ago

    Good riddance!! He is nothing but trouble for EY

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It would be a pleasure to read this blog the day after Obama wins his 2nd term! It’s like listening to joe beningo on 660 the day after a mets or jets loss…

    Conservative One
    Conservative One
    13 years ago

    Rahm, make sure that the door doesn’t hit you on the way out and while you’re at it why not take your dear friend Hussein Obama with you. You know that the Obama ship is sinking so you decided to bail out.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Is #2 really Charlie Hall in disguise?

    Brains
    Brains
    13 years ago

    is all you guys know how to do is bash Barack Obama, “ooh, I hate him soooo much, I hope he fails, I hope he loses the next election, he is an evil immoral liberal socialist communist leftist terrorist Bolshevik…..” really guys, shut-up and talk issues….quit the hatred and stop being a bunch of fools. no one is going to take the Frum community seriously when their political views are so predictably bigoted!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    My hopes for Rahm were that he would bring ideas to the White House that would balance out the rabid anti-Israel policy of Obama. He failed, and I suspect that he feels like a failure. Had I been the guy, I wouldn’t feel comfortable being a spokesman for the administration that expresses veiled support for fanatic Islam and only disdain and disgrace for Israel. And as long as Obama continues that, he will not get even the Democratic support from the Senate and Congress. Rahm was set up to fail, and he needs to leave that for someone else. I don’t blame him a bit for leaving. On the other hand, I hold him responsible for a portion of the anti-Israel policy that has existed since Obama took office. Go, and make it sooner. Obama will not be helped at this point by someone else, and will continue his plunge into unpopularity, well deserved. get out of his way, and let him encounter the consequences of his pro-terror policies.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Good riddance!