Rahm Emanuel: I Never Believed In Bipartisanship
The Plum Line :
In a new book, Rahm claims he privately argued to Obama that he shouldn't pursue bipartisan support for health reform, because it would take too much time, instead insisting that the lesson of Clinton's failure to pass reform was that it was imperative to put a premium on getting it done quickly. That cuts strongly against the image of Rahm as the chief internal advocate of the White House's strategy of deal-making and accommodation with Republicans.
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"I" believe the beauty of the Health Care bill is that is is now in place at long last and there has been a lot of work that can be done to and for and with it in future years. ..
a master peice of middle-class safety net in the workings.(smile)