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, 12:32, February 21, 2010Rahm Emanuel
Celente is colorful, but his analysis has not been widely accepted by conservative economists. The article emphasizes the consensus of the conservative economists. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 09:04, 16 August 2009 (EDT)
Celente is colorful, but his analysis has not been widely accepted by conservative economists. The article emphasizes the consensus of the conservative economists. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 09:04, 16 August 2009 (EDT)
==Rahm Emanuel==
"Rahm Emmanuel has Obama's ear"?, not according to the ''[[WashingtonPost]]''.
:''Obama's greatest mistake was failing to listen to Emanuel on health care. Early on, Emanuel argued for a smaller bill with popular items, such as expanding health coverage for children and young adults, that could win some Republican support. He opposed the public option as a needless distraction. The president disregarded that strategy and sided with Capitol Hill liberals who hoped to ram a larger, less popular bill through Congress with Democratic votes only. The result was, as the world now knows, disastrous. Had it gone Emanuel's way, a politically popular health-care bill would have passed long ago, leaving plenty of time for other attractive priorities, such as efforts to make college more affordable. We would have seen a continuation of the momentum of the first half of 2009, when Obama followed Emanuel's strategy and got 11 substantive bills on his desk before the August recess. Instead, Congress has ground to a halt, on climate legislation, Wall Street reforms and virtually everything else.''
:''Emanuel bitterly opposed former White House counsel Greg Craig's effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, arguing that it wasn't politically feasible. Obama overruled Emanuel, the deadline wasn't met, and Republicans pounced on the president and the Democrats for trying to bring terrorists to U.S. prisons. Likewise, Emanuel fought fiercely against Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to send Khalid Sheik Mohammed to New York for a trial. Emanuel lost, and the result was another political fiasco. ''
:''Obama's problem is that his other confidants -- particularly Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs, and, to a lesser extent, David Axelrod -- are part of the Cult of Obama. In love with the president, they believe he is a transformational figure who needn't dirty his hands in politics.'' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021904298_pf.html] [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 07:32, 21 February 2010 (EST)