Rahm Emanuel on Dems attacking Dems: “F–king Stupid”

By GottaLaff

There was this private meeting, see, between leaders of liberal groups and Rahm Emanuel. And in this meeting, Rahm said that the Dems shouldn't run health care ads attacking the Blue Dogs any more, see. But Greg Sargent was told that...

[...] Emanuel went quite a bit further than this.

Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them “f–king stupid.” This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.

Tellingly, Rahm raised the specter of a loss on health care, sources at the meeting say — which suggests that the White House may be less certain about victory than officials allow publicly.

Ruh-roh.

“He started out with, `We’re 13 and 0 going into health care,’” one source at the meeting said, meaning that Rahm was touting the White House’s string of pre-health care legislative victories.

“This momentum is necessary to do all these other things. We have a lot of momentum right now, and any loss spoils that momentum that we’ve built up,” was how the source described the gist of what Rahm said.

We have so much logic, common sense, and great ideas on our side, yet we're not getting the message out. So much energy has been spent on the Rushpublimobs that we've lost our through-line.

As Randi Rhodes said on her radio show a few minutes ago, the media hasn't spent any time explaining the meat of the health care plan at all. It's always about the horse race, or in this case, the horse's asses, but rarely about what people need to know, process, and understand.

Trust us, corporate media, Americans can understand health care reform, if anyone would bother to explain it to them.