Where's Rahm Emanuel

Anyone hear from Rahm Emanuel since it came out that he had indeed been talking with Rod Blagojevich about the senate seat?

I have not seen him on the TV and he hasn’t been quoted for quite some time in the papers.

Something tells me he that after he and team Obama got caught lying he is trying his best to ride out Blagojevich's impeachment.

Fortunately for him, no one in the press has noticed (or gives a shit).

Rahm's calls on tape

Recently heard on a wiretap:

Sneed hears rumbles President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations by the feds -- dealing with his boss' vacant Senate seat!

But rememeber folks, I am sure he was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there. He He.

Let the Rewriting of This Chapter of Obama History Begin

And so it begins

At the NY Times:

In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of Barack Obama’s rise through Illinois politics, a phone call he made three months ago to urge passage of a state ethics bill indirectly contributed to the downfall of a fellow Democrat he twice supported, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.

Really? I though it was an ongoing investigation that began in 2003?

At the Washington Post:

By all accounts, Obama and Blagojevich are not close, though then-Sen. Obama endorsed his fellow Democrat's reelection bid in 2006.

This is just the beginning in of what is sure to be an exhaustive rewrote of the history of Obama (and by extension Axelrod and Emanuel) and Blagojevich.

If the Illinois GOP cant use this as an issue to beat their opponents to death with (much like Ryan was used as an issue) then to hell with them.

Predictions: The Traitor

Everyone loves predictions … right? I know I do.

Every so often, I think I am going to throw one of these out there, that way when one of them comes true, I can look prescient and wise (just so long as you ignore all the wrong ones).

Rahm Emanuel will not last more than 3 years in the new administration and will become Obama’s Scott McClellan or Paul O’Neil.

A fight will begin in the new administration over how to deal with Israel, Iran and the Palestinians. On one side will be the advisors who want nothing more than to see Palestinians dance victoriously in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, think of people like Ed Lasky and Zbigniew Brzezinski and then there will be guys like Emanuel.

Emanuel does not seem to be an overly ideological guy, he’s a run of the mill machine power monger, very good at what he does. The one issue that trumps his MO is Israel. Emanuel, for example, left the US during the Gulf War to volunteer with the IDF. Zionism is a cause that he and his family have always strongly supported.

If the anti-Israeli side of the new Obama demonstration wins out, and the US abandons our ally, I don’t think the Emanuel will play the yes man and will turn on the administration.

But the best part is going to see Emanuel go from being the good Jew to the bad demonized Jew in a heartbeat. The DNC has always had a soft spot for anti-Semitesand this would certainly put a big spotlight on this. .