Darth Rahm Gets Appropriate Send Off, From White House

[twyacht]

Ah, after doing such a good job, as White House Chief Thug, our buddy, Darth Rahm "Dead Fish" Emanuel, received a good-bye gift, on his way back to Chicago, to pursue a much more fitting position as hopeful Mayor of Chicago.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/a-teary-emanuel-gets-dead-fish-at-white-house-send-off.html

A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off

October 01, 2010 9:55 AM


At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.

This was an allusion to the Emanuel legend of his sending a dead fish to a pollster for whom he didn’t care, replicating the scene from The Godfather when the Corleones were alerted of Luca Brasi’s death with a dead fish wrapped in Brasi’s bullet-proof vest. The specific species was a reference to Emanuel’s focus as a member of Congress and White House chief of staff on the aggressive, invasive Asian carp, bane of the Great Lakes, a plankton-devouring creature heading towards Chicago.

Goolsbee said: “I talked to the policy team and we wanted to give you a going away present—something to show how we feel about you but also shows we understand your new possibilities.  I was the natural go between—I voted for you all three times you ran for Congress and even in that first primary.  So here is your present.”

Emanuel opened the package, which was wrapped in copies of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.

“This is a dead fish!” he said.

Goolsbee: “To most people, it looks like a dead fish.  But to a future mayor of Chicago, it looks like a dead Asian Carp.  And you’ll be happy to know that it wasn’t easy to find one of these”

Said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “In Chicago, this is how friends say goodbye.”

Emanuel, who got teary during the staff meeting, told staffers that he knows that he pushed staffers “very hard. But I did it in service to the president. And I believe that our whole country is better off for it.”

Staffers gave him a standing ovation.

--Jake Tapper

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You underestimate the power of the "Dark Side".... Go get em' Rahm, Chicago deserves you.

[cookie62]

 

The specific species was a reference to Emanuel’s focus as a member of Congress and White House chief of staff on the aggressive, invasive Asian carp, bane of the Great Lakes, a plankton-devouring creature heading towards Chicago.

He's the bane of Illinois.

[tombogan03884]

This is a dead fish!” he said.

Goolsbee: “To most people, it looks like a dead fish.  But to a future mayor of Chicago, it looks like a dead Asian Carp.  And you’ll be happy to know that it wasn’t easy to find one of these”

Said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “In Chicago, this is how friends say goodbye.”

                                                                                   roflmao

[Pathfinder]

This is a dead fish!” he said.

Goolsbee: “To most people, it looks like a dead fish.  But to a future mayor of Chicago, it looks like a dead Asian Carp.  And you’ll be happy to know that it wasn’t easy to find one of these”

Said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “In Chicago, this is how friends say goodbye.”

                                                                                   roflmao

I read that and cringed. As most of you know, I spent most of my life in Chicago. Yeah, Chicago has the whole Mob, gangster past and azzhole chief thug Daley today. And politics is politics. As corrupt and brutal as Chicago is, tho, Boston, NYC, Detroit, Philly, and others are all as corrupt or brutal in their own ways with their own mini-cultures and peculiarities.

As in most cities, tho, there are a huge number of people who are just trying to get ahead, or even just stay even. The machines ensure that these people keep the azzholes like Daley in power, contrary to their best interests.

Said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs: “In Chicago, this is how friends complete jerks and thoughtless azzholes say goodbye.”

FIFY - and you can count Gibbs in the red letter part too! 

[tombogan03884]

Hey , Quit attacking Gibbs, He'll send nice flowers.

[Sponsor]

[jaybet]

He's going back to the family headquarters to take what's his...that's the gang running this country right now. The biggest political mob the country has ever seen.

[tombogan03884]

Jay, That's the whole point , 1920 or 2019 Chicago is always the same.

[jaybet]

Jay, That's the whole point , 1920 or 2019 Chicago is always the same.

RAHM CAPONE  
So do you think thats why Daley stepped down? The "family" told him to do it so Rahm can get what he wants? Now I'll bet dollars to donuts that Daley gets some cushy, do-nothing appointment from Obama.

[crusader rabbit]

Not to be argumentative, but a MORE appropriate send-off would have involved flushing!  But then, some turds never seem to clear the bowl.  Chicago is probably the right venue for that POS.