You just know he was in Obama's ear every day telling him "Fuck those dirty hippies, you need Wall Street on your side".

If he loses this election it'll scare the shit out of those who want to nominate another DINO as the party's 2016 presidential candidate.

Obama knew or should have known what Rahm was, so I figure it was exactly what he intended to do.

Now from *my* point of view, oh yeah, it definitely was a mistake....!

so maybe it wasn't all Emanuel's fault.

Still, the guy gives off a kind of slimy vibe I don't get from the president or most other Democrats.

Joe Lieberman being the most prominent exception.

There isn't the usual torrent of abuse from the corporate wing. A come to Jesus moment, or just in denial?

Prosecute the bastard.

Do I mean Cheney or His Nibbs? Why, both, of course.

They think (and off the cuff, I'd say they're probably right) that he'll squeak out a win in the run-off.

Democracy, I believe you already know Mr. Emanuel....

my apprehension, however, is how the "officialists" will handle this: in 2001 they banned voting for third parties, in '06 primaries, in '10 complaining, in '14 not-voting was out of bounds--remember the mighty multibillion abstentionist campaign to convince us that both parties were mostly interested in gaining money and ensuring it for their backers?

I'm not from Chicago (although I lived in Michigan in the late '90s, and have fond memories of hours spent walking around Lake View, the Loop, and the Lakeshore area). But my guess is that Emanuel will pull out all the procedural stops on this one (and then some). His problem seems to be that he feels so entitled - the very cause of his possible undoing, as irony would have it.

And there's another problem with that strategy, as far as Emanuel's concerned: García's charisma. All things being equal, few things beat charisma not only as a political asset in itself, of course; but also as a motivator for voter turnout.

I have nothing against Mayor Emanuel; I don't care if he was a lobbyist, if he's a Third-Way DINO, if he's gay, or what have you. When he won the first time around, I felt happy for Obama; as it's common knowledge the two are close friends, Emanuel's victory must have been a nice consolation price for the president coming so soon after the 2010 tea bag shellacking.

But the minute I learned Hizzoner was closing 54 public schools in already desperately poor and underserved areas, and that he was doing so because he was being advised to do so by sworn enemies of public education like the Eli Broad Academy goons, that did it. If I lived in Chicago, I'd be hard pressed to support someone like that.

Plan for Chicago ?

I'm sure he understands why turning on the base is a bad idea.

To clearly show what's wrong with neoliberalism, just study Rahm.

Corporate tool, anti-union, pro-privatization, crony-capitalist, pro 1%/screw-the-99%, openly anti-liberal.

Milton Friedman would be proud of Rahm.

Decent Americans should be ashamed.

And Dems who like or support him, should maybe do some soul searching.

Hmm.... there's something a foot here.