Rahm Emanuel is out, Pete Rouse is in.
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Showing posts with label Rahm Emanuel. Show all posts
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Rahm Emanuel Might Quit
From Slatest:
Rahm Emanuel Expected To Quit After Midterm Elections
Rahm Emanuel has always been known to get things done. Washington insiders are saying that the White House chief of staff will quit his post within six to eight months because he is frustrated by Obama's closest advisers' idealism and their unwillingness to push through legislation. "Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one of the most high profile jobs in U.S. politics," the London Telegraph reported. The Telegraph didn't name any of its sources, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment, but Emanuel himself has reportedly said that he believes the position is only an 18-month job because of its intensity. "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," the Telegraph reported. The paper also quotes a Democratic consultant as saying that the job just isn't working out the way it's supposed to. "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."
The London Telegraph Monday, June 21, 2010
We covered this in class today. It introduced us to the White House Staff and the other institutions (along with the Cabinet and Executive Office of the President) that advise the president.
Here are a few recent stories about Emanuel:
- Wonkbook: WH talks climate compromise; meet the anti-stimulus ...
- Emanuel: Hayward yachting 'a big mistake'
- In the speaker's office, a quiet liberal lion: Wendell E. Primus
- Emanuel invites Netanyahu to the White House
Rahm Emanuel Expected To Quit After Midterm Elections
Rahm Emanuel has always been known to get things done. Washington insiders are saying that the White House chief of staff will quit his post within six to eight months because he is frustrated by Obama's closest advisers' idealism and their unwillingness to push through legislation. "Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one of the most high profile jobs in U.S. politics," the London Telegraph reported. The Telegraph didn't name any of its sources, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment, but Emanuel himself has reportedly said that he believes the position is only an 18-month job because of its intensity. "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," the Telegraph reported. The paper also quotes a Democratic consultant as saying that the job just isn't working out the way it's supposed to. "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."
The London Telegraph Monday, June 21, 2010
We covered this in class today. It introduced us to the White House Staff and the other institutions (along with the Cabinet and Executive Office of the President) that advise the president.
Here are a few recent stories about Emanuel:
- Wonkbook: WH talks climate compromise; meet the anti-stimulus ...
- Emanuel: Hayward yachting 'a big mistake'
- In the speaker's office, a quiet liberal lion: Wendell E. Primus
- Emanuel invites Netanyahu to the White House
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Is Obama Not Listening to his Chief of Staff?
From the Washington Post:
Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He's the town's resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.
But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts.
It is a view propounded by lawmakers and early supporters of President Obama who are frustrated because they think the administration has gone for the perfect at the expense of the plausible. They believe Emanuel, the town's leading purveyor of four-letter words, a former Israeli army volunteer and a product of a famously argumentative family, was not aggressive enough in trying to persuade a singularly self-assured president and a coterie of true-believer advisers that "change you can believe in" is best pursued through accomplishments you can pass.
read on ....
For more info
- White House Chief of Staff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Rahm Emanuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel The White House
- Obama's White House: There's something about Rahm
Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He's the town's resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.
But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts.
It is a view propounded by lawmakers and early supporters of President Obama who are frustrated because they think the administration has gone for the perfect at the expense of the plausible. They believe Emanuel, the town's leading purveyor of four-letter words, a former Israeli army volunteer and a product of a famously argumentative family, was not aggressive enough in trying to persuade a singularly self-assured president and a coterie of true-believer advisers that "change you can believe in" is best pursued through accomplishments you can pass.
read on ....
For more info
- White House Chief of Staff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Rahm Emanuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel The White House
- Obama's White House: There's something about Rahm
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Making Connections
This is how you play the game:
In late 1998, while Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a departing senior political aide to President Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview.
John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel.
“I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” said Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.”
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Mr. Emanuel, who was chosen last month to become President-elect Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, went on to make more than $18 million in just two-and-a-half years, turning many of his contacts in his substantial political Rolodex into paying clients and directing his negotiating prowess and trademark intensity to mergers and acquisitions. He also benefited from the opportune sale of Wasserstein Perella to a German bank, helping him to an unusually large payout.
Sweet.
In late 1998, while Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a departing senior political aide to President Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview.
John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel.
“I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” said Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.”
...
Mr. Emanuel, who was chosen last month to become President-elect Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, went on to make more than $18 million in just two-and-a-half years, turning many of his contacts in his substantial political Rolodex into paying clients and directing his negotiating prowess and trademark intensity to mergers and acquisitions. He also benefited from the opportune sale of Wasserstein Perella to a German bank, helping him to an unusually large payout.
Sweet.
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