In Praise of Rahm

By GottaLaff

Rahming it through:

Ezra Klein: "It's a bit weird to see so much blame accruing to Rahm Emanuel for the administration's woes. Emanuel wasn't part of the campaign team. He was brought in to help govern. In that capacity, his primary job was shepherding the administration's agenda through the legislative process. Ugly as that process was, Emanuel -- and more to the point, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi -- did a fairly masterful job at it. In the Senate, Democrats got all 60 of their members to sign onto the same large, controversial bill. That's a legislative achievement [unprecedented] in modern times. Bill Clinton didn't manage it on any bills of this size and scope, and neither did George W. Bush."

Rahm has a friend.