Rather disgusting the way Washington works, but with Obamacare floundering, the Democratic leadership and the kook left will demand their revenge for failure, and Obama’s official news organ, the New York Times, tees up Obama’s Chief of Staff:
… Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Mr. Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a generation. But with his prominence in almost everything important going on in Washington comes a high degree of risk.
As the principal author of Mr. Obama’s do-everything-at-once strategy, he stands to become a figure of consequence in his own right if the administration stabilizes the economy and financial markets, overhauls the health care system and winds down one war while successfully prosecuting another.
If things do not go well — and right now Mr. Obama’s political popularity is declining, his health care legislation is under conservative assault, the budget deficit is at an eye-popping level and Afghanistan remains volatile — it is Mr. Emanuel whose job will be on the line before Mr. Obama’s…
Yeah, no kidding – Emanuel will be out the door by January if Obamacare fails to pass this fall. Watch how fast Emanuel goes from “super genius” to “you moron” around the left blogosphere and MSM talk shops. Truth be told, of course, Emanuel will deserve part of the censure for failure – one doesn’t hire a CoS to lose…but at bottom, it is Obama’s political tin ear which has brought him to this condition. Just a little bit of respect for the right and Obama could have got 90% of what he wanted…now, he’ll be lucky to even get a legislative fig leaf on health care to cover his failure.
The perils of politics – especially when the top dog is the most clueless man in the room.
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