Whose arms is Rahm twisitng?

[rollingrock]

the progressives or the blue dogs?

Isn't that what Obama hired him for? Because he is known as a scary pitbull who can whip people into line?

[Dramarama]

1. Or vice versa

[Thrill]

2. The time to twist arms is when there is an actual bill to start voting on

[rollingrock]

4. Rahm described progressives as 'f*cking stupid'

for daring to criticize the blue dog healthcare proposals, which deep-sixed the public option.

it looks like the arm-twisting started a long time ago. and it's certainly not the blue dogs arms being twisted.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I'd love to see him try his fake tough guy act on the Blue Poodles when the time comes. nt

[blm]

5. Rahm never rages at, manipulates, or twists the arms of corporoDems...his rep as a tough guy is hype

crafted to target and torment the left into submission. The corpmedia helps carry out that mission.

[polichick]

6. Well, he went after liberals for ads targeting blue dogs so... nt

[Dr Fate]

8. Who says he has no spine! He defends us from those terrible, terrible Liberals.

If not for his courage, those Liberals would have ruined everything by now!!! ;)

[polichick]

10. LOL - he probably really thinks that way! nt

[Dr Fate]

12. If the brave DLCers had not stood up to the crazy libs, we wouldnt have this AWESOME war!

I'm tired of people saying that our DEMS never stand up to anyone! It's just not true!!!

[rollingrock]

9. Ah, yes

Rahm threatens liberal groups:

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel warned liberal groups this week to stop running ads against Democratic members of Congress.

The powerful top aide to President Obama made his feelings known at the weekly closed-door strategy session of an array of progressive organizations, according to two sources who were there.

www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25900.html
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Some people say Politico isn't a reliable source, but I wouldn't be surprised if the story was true.
After all, just look what Rahm did to Howard Dean. There's a lot of bad blood between Rahm and the progressives.

[polichick]

11. Yeah - I'd much rather have HD in the WH than Rahm...

We have Howard to thank for wanting to draft progressive candidates and Rahm to thank for blue dogs.

[Dr Fate]

7. Good point- DEMS have plenty of "spine" when it comes to "standing up" to progressives. n/t

n/t