Rahm

Rahm is just another player in this, but more like a coach for the neighborhood bar's softball team, not a Yankee.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

In his gushing NYT column today, Brooks cooed, Rahm is completely in touch with his affections and aversions.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

Rahm is just another player in this, but more like a coach for the neighborhood bar's softball team, not a Yankee.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

But the only real problem with Rahm is that Obama has listened to him.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

Even David Brooks agrees: "Over all, Rahm is a warmhearted Machiavellian."

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

But at some point, I think Obama grasped the shortcomings in Rahm compared to the macho alter-ego of Rahm's brother Ari on Entourage.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

But the only real problem with Rahm is that Obama has listened to him.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

It's not that I am so outraged like Michael Moore that Rahm is so contemptuous of the progressive base of his own party, he would flippantly interject "Fuck the UAW" in a bailout meeting, dismissing the middle class families that comprise it because they lack clout.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

In his gushing NYT column today, Brooks cooed, Rahm is completely in touch with his affections and aversions.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

In a Rockwell-ian retrospective softening of Rahm Emmanuel in the New York Times, David Brooks relates his personal experiences of a kinder, gentler Rahm, one that does not cuss or bully others into submission, as Rahm is regularly described as, even by President Obama.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010