Meet Obama's New Chief of Staff: Rahm Emmanuel

[elprincipe]

akuma587 said:

elprincipe said:
It's sad, although not unexpected, that a "post-partisan/bipartisan" President-elect Obama has chosen one of the most vicious partisan hacks in the House of Representatives as his chief of staff. What next, Barbara Boxer for EPA? Jim McDermott for Defense? Jim Moran for HUD? I can't wait to see what hypocrisy surfaces next, or on second thought maybe I can.

I guess you also missed that Obama plans on keeping the current Secretary of Defense, at least until Robert Gates chooses to retire.  He wants to voluntarily retire probably within the next year as he feels he is "Too old for this shit" (his own words, he's a Lethal Weapon fan).

Oh wait, you probably never even looked.

 

 

Actually that's not determined yet.  There is some thought he might keep Gates, who after all has done a fantastic job and moved the department from a highly partisan target under Rumsfeld to bipartisan consensus where it should be in most cases.  But this has nothing to do with Emanuel, and I don't appreciate the insipid comment at the end which stupidly and lamely attempts to paint me as a blind partisan.