Rahm Emanuel

By Igor Cao has previously been touted by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) once as “the future” of the GOP. The White House had reportedly “been in constant contact” with him prior to the vote. “Rahm is going all in to get him,” one aide told Roll Call, referring to White House Chief of Staff R...

By The Huffington Post News Editors 7:45 AM ET -- The Democratic 'no' votes. HuffPost's Jeff Muskus reports: House leaders, with the help of the White House, frantically whipped for health care votes Friday in advance of a floor vote, but the number of Democrats planning to vote against reform continues to rise.

By The Huffington Post News Team WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trying to close the deal in the House on his health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote that's certain... WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trying to close the deal in the House on his health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote that'...

By Lee Stranahan In a political move that Republican strategist Karl Rove said will 'mess up people's heads way worse than their heads ever been messed up before,... In a political move that Republican strategist Karl Rove said will 'mess up people's heads way worse than their heads ever been messed up befor...

By Sandy Maisel A fitting tribute to Senator Kennedy will be President Obama's signing of a significant health care reform package that is supported by more than just the Democrats in Congress. Schumer and Reid and Pelosi want a win for congressional Democrats, and they are willing to trample the Republ...

By Pareene Obama likes to play sports, watch sports and talk sports. (Even his favorite TV shows, "Mad Men" and "Entourage," are set in male-dominated worlds.) So the Obama aides who can do that, like Robert Gibbs, have a deeper personal connection with the president than someone like Rahm Emanuel, t...

The Obama team isn’t shying away. Vice President Joe Biden, in remarks to reporters traveling with him in Eastern Europe on Friday, and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, in a weekend interview, both responded pointedly and directly to Mr. Cheney’s criticisms. “Everybody’s fascina...

By Vikrum Aiyer Regardless, the ability of the White House and Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to demonstrate a keen sense of diplomatic prowess with Karzai shined through this week. So, if Karzai were to hold onto his seat, the Obama Administration would be able to continue t...

By The Huffington Post News Team WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not intend to decide about sending additional troops to Afghanistan until he is satisfied that the Kabul government can... WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not intend to decide about sending additional troops to Afghanistan until he is sa...

By The Huffington Post News Team White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's criticism of Fox News during their interviews this morning... White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's cr...

By Cenk Uygur Once again, Howard Dean is right and Rahm Emanuel is wrong. The voters didn't vote for a little bit of change. They gave the Democrats the White House and overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate. They voted for real change. The kind of change that Dean always pushes for (and often accomp...

By Holly Bailey But where does blaming Karzai and the Afghan government actually get the White House? (And, by the way, didn’t they see this coming? For months, there have been doubts at the White House about Karzai’s leadership in Afghanistan. A senior administration official admitted as much when bri...

By Mark Murray But other powerful voices are urging caution: Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have raised real concerns about the idea of sending more troops to Afghanistan without a clear strategy, as have Democrats in Congress. And a majority of Americans oppose incre...

By David Sirota I mean, I seem to remember an election just a few months ago that resulted in a Democratic president, and huge Democratic majorities in Congress - and I seem to remember there was a Barack Obama who only a short while ago said geting those electoral results was the only obstacle to a full-on s...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Earlier this month, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Netanyahu called senior White House officials Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod "self-hating Jews," which Haaretz said was a sign of Netanyahu's "paranoia." More on Israel

By Foster Kamer Today, in the New York Times awesome profile on Rahm Emanuel, some great stories. Chief among them: Rahm not getting invited to Camp David, Rahm nixing Sydney Blumenthal's role in Hilary Clinton's office, and Rahm the "pile driver." But why?

By Foster Kamer Today, in the New York Times awesome profile on Rahm Emanuel, some great stories. Chief among them: Rahm not getting invited to Camp David, Rahm nixing Sidney Blumenthal's role in Hilary Clinton's office, and Rahm the "pile driver." But why?

By Aaron Belkin Regardless of their motives, the consequences of their efforts have been quite sad. Three, in particular, come to mind. To begin, gays have undermined the national security argument which took a decade to establish in the public's mind. Part of the reason to sign an immediate executive ord...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Two of the administration's highest-profile members of the Jewish faith plan to miss the dinner. Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel doesn't plan to attend and Axelrod expects to be in Chicago with his family. Obama's move won quick praise from the National Jewish Democratic Council.

One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago's Rahm Emanuel-now chief of staff to President Barack Obama-who made at least $320000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort. "Little effort" may be an ...

By The Huffington Post News Team On "Larry King Live" Wednesday night, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel spoke frankly about the pressure of working in the administration and the... On "Larry King Live" Wednesday night, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel spoke frankly about the pressure of working in the admini...

By Owen Thomas Amazing what people fetishize these days: Gray hair, dark circles under the eyes, average-at-best height, a missing middle finger? Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, beat conventionally gorgeous policy advisor Melody Barnes in our poll. Who's the hottest Obama staffer? polls)

 PA - Washington has issued an APB for former Representative and putative Chief of staff for the Obama White House Rahm Emanual. Emanuel is 5′ 7″ tall, ... A Political Review of Illinois' 5th CD Gapers Block all 2 news articles

Did President-elect Obama’s team really tell us anything with its report on contacts—or lack thereof—with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich? Christopher Beam of Slate writes that the report, “it turns out, says exactly what Obama said it would: That Obama’s team did have contact with the o...

Washington Post  CA - Rod Blagojevich, at left, and President-elect Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, have worked together previously in Illinois politics as this ... Will Pay To Play Doom Illinois Politicians? Chicago Daily Observer

By info@townhall.com (Hugh Hewitt) 12230803 Hewitt: Hour 3 - After a replay of the Mike Regele interview, Hugh talks about the news in the release of the Obama team's report on the Rahm Emanuel - Blago scandal with National Review Campaign Spot blogger Jim Geraghty.

That afternoon, during the 1 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live, anchor Andrea Mitchell reported that "The Chicago Sun-Times reports that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is caught on tape discussing the Senate replacement with governor staff [sic] 21 times," then added that the c...

By The Huffington Post News Editors With the Obama transition team set to release an internal report regarding the extent of its interactions with embattled governor Rod Blagojevich, one of the key figures in the mix is heading out of the country. More on Rahm Emanuel

And Republicans, in the meantime, should forget about their effort to tar Obama by Blagojevichizing national politics. The two men just didn't like each other, and as one Chicago Democrat told me: "Barack has had as little to do with Blagojevich as is possible for a senator to have with a go...

By Mark Finkelstein A.B. STODDARD: Well, this is obviously a huge distraction, but I think President-elect Obama is taking steps to be as forthcoming and as open and as transparent as he promised he would be.  I would be shocked if Rahm Emanuel had not gotten on the phone with Rod Blagojevich and asked him, I don't...

Discussing the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), co-host Craig Silverman on his December 10 630 KHOW-AM broadcast misrepresented comments CNN senior analyst David Gergen made on the December 9 broadcast of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, claiming that Gergen "made the o...

That's what David Axelrod said. But Barack Obama said, "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening." Blagojevich trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. David Axelrod on November 23rd says to Fox News in Chi...

By The Huffington Post News Team Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a meeting with governors from both parties.... Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a m...

By NB Staff Appearing on the November 24 "Fox & Friends," MRC Director of Communications Seton Motley reacted to left-wing bloggers critical of President-elect Obama for choosing center-left, rather than far-left staffers for his presidential transition team. [audio available here]:

By Katharine Jose According to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton would be a great secretary of state. A liberal Rochester blogger has mixed feelings about the rumor that Republican State Senator Jim Alesi will flip to the Democrats. James Zogby defends Rahm Emanuel.

Meantime the Washington Post’s David Broder concludes that so far Obama is handling the transition period well. “What we have seen so far suggests that Obama’s skills will carry over to his new and expanded responsibilities. His victory speech in Grant Park, his first news conference and...

BBC News  NC - Obama named Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as the White House chief of staff. Emanuel, a veteran of the Clinton administration, has been a close advisor to ... Obama plans review of Bush executive orders San Jose Mercury News Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy New York Times

And finally, in a bit of unsurprising news, Howard Dean is stepping down as DNC Chair. Washingtonpost.com’s Chris Cillizza takes a look at his tenure and writes “Dean was not as well received among members of the permanent political class in Washington, many of whom dismissed him as a light...

By MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor Then again, as Corn puts it: “Emanuel might make a good CoS for Obama. He knows how the White House operates. He knows how Congress works. He’s fierce; he’s smart. And Obama needs someone with experience and brains for this tough job. But should the White House of a president seeking change be run...

By shannanb CNN: Official: Obama could name more administration picks Friday President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official said. CNN: Emanuel pick gets mixed r...

By Scott Whitlock In 2006, his rank was only four. In contrast, the House member's average from the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action is a very high 96. And yet, Shipman erroneously asserted, "More than anything, the 48-year-old Illinois representative is a pragmatic, centrist politician wh...

By Gavin M. According to the Cook County Assessor’s website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and likely new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn’t exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel’s residence on the Illinois State Board of Electio...

By dandelionsalad Obama’s key White House position will go to Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois. While Emanuel knows his way around the corridors of Washington, qualifying him in the traditional sense, this alone doesn’t mean he’s the guy you want drawing up Obama’s policy papers day after day.

By Jason Bonham According to the Cook County Assessor’s website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and likely new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn’t exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel’s residence on the Illinois State Board of Electio...

By Pareene It was there that Emanuel, then Clinton's chief fund-raiser, repaired with George Stephanopoulos, Mandy Grunwald and other aides to Doe's, the campaign hangout. Revenge was heavy in the air as the group discussed the enemies - Democrats, Republicans, members of the press - who wronged...

AP: McCain calls for debate delay. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) says he's not so sure McCain's presence is needed in DC. He says the American people could hear from the candidates in the debate. So it's not clear that Obama is going to react positively to the McCain move. MP3 of Obama response to McCain.

By MissLaura Often this job went to a distinguished senior statesman.  Emanuel, on the other hand, was new to Congress, having just been elected to his second term. But he was known as a political assassin, willing to launch relentless, nasty attacks on his opponents, and Pelosi believed that was what t...

By opinionist That politically savvy news platform ‘The Hill‘, reported today [Jonathan E. Kaplan] that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) all-powerful Democratic Caucus Chair, Representative [IL] Rahm Emanuel, has forbidden freshly elected Democratic members of Cong...

By kevin@aylwardfamily.com (Wizbang) Here's what I thought you'd like to hear about today: Finding Meaning Hear clips from the press & President Bush, Rahm Emanuel, Chuck Schumer, pundits from Pew on exit polls, The Brookings Institution on mandates, and Steven Colbert on Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Only the best.

By kevin@aylwardfamily.com (Wizbang) Here's what I thought you'd like to hear about today: Finding Meaning Hear clips from the press & President Bush, Rahm Emanuel, Chuck Schumer, pundits from Pew on exit polls, The Brookings Institution on mandates, and Steven Colbert on Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Only the best.