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Post-Post-Partisan Era Begins
By Kyle | November 7, 2008
WASHINGTON (MSM)–President-Elect Obama announced the end of the post-partisan era yesterday while making his first hire, vicious hyper-partisan Demcocrat attack dog Rahm Emanuel.
Obama, who promised in his victory speech on Tuesday night to “resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long,” added yesterday, “Psych!” when he offered the White House Chief of Staff job to Emanuel.
Emanuel, who once sent a dead fish to a political enemy and was described as “a cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache” by fellow Democrat Paul Begala, is known as “Rahmbo” for his flamethrower approach to politics and also for his mullet.
The post-partisan era lasted from Nov. 4, 2008 to Nov. 5, 2008.
Topics: Barack Obama |
November 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
C’mon, it was a blast while it lasted!
Hope!
Change!
I can’t HEAR you!!
November 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I thought that was an odd appointment as well. He might as well appoint Maureen Dowd as his press secretary. I think he needs to give Lieberman a cabinet post, in spite of being a Democrat (kind of) he would still be considered a reach across the aisle.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I’m not sure where I read this (maybe National Review), but someone came up with an alternative take to the Rahm Emanuel story.
Essentially, Obama doesn’t have to worry about the GOP, who are obviously going to be in opposition, but rather he has to worry about the Dems in Congress. Obama needs a hammer to keep Pelosi, Reid, Rangel, et al in line. All three have like a thousand years cumulatively in Congess and will be seeking to reap their rewards. Enter Rahm….
I think there is a bit of merit to this take, but I’d think it was largely directed at the GOP.
I have no problem with Emanuel being COS, though. I’m not going to expect him to pick some wimp deliberately to satisfy the GOP.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
God forbid we wait and actually see how these people act before declaring any “era” over. Talk radio where I live had honestly been claiming that his first Supreme Court nominee would be Cornell West. I’m all for criticizing his administration for things they actually do, but unless I see an appointment like West (and I’m sure we won’t see such a thing), I’ll wait and see what those things are.
There’s no way Lieberman gets anything in this administration, but I wouldn’t be surprised of an actual republican does.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I don’t think that an “actual republican” will get a position. Maybe an actual RINO, though.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Frankly, any Republican he offered the job to would probably be labeled a “RINO” by people like KS by that fact alone. But then again certain parts of the right are developing an ideological rigidity that Mao would envy. If the GOP wants to regain political power, it needs to get past this (just as the Dems basically got past *some* of their ideological issues during the Clinton period).
November 8th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
lol — funny post.
If your point is to critic Obama’s ridiculous claims to bipartisanship, I whole heartily agree. But I disagree if this is to be seen as a critic of post-partisanship given that Obama has yet to make an attempt at post-partisanship.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
lol — funny post.
If your point is to critic Obama’s ridiculous claims to bipartisanship, I whole heartily agree. But I disagree if this is to be seen as a critic of post-partisanism given that Obama has yet to make an attempt at post-partisanship.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
“But then again certain parts of the right are developing an ideological rigidity that Mao would envy.”
Wrong. The party copying Mao is the democrat party.
The Republicans/Conservatives are trying to fight for the soul of the party. Fiscal Conservatives versus populist republicans. Social Conservatives versus Small government conservatives.
The party that is unified won the election, and their unification is to destroy the greatness of this nation.