Rahm and the Knucklefucks
Published by BG on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 6:21 AM.The legend of Rahm | Salon Books
I remember sitting on my couch in Chicago and thinking, "If the Democrats want to turn it around, they need to take some lessons from the machine around here. Chicago Democrats have no scruples. They treat political offices as feudal inheritances. They shake down contributors like a corrupt pope selling indulgences. They're sleazy, they're arrogant … and they WIN."
That night, on the northwest side, Rahm Emanuel was elected to Congress...
As they said about Buddy Hackett in Vegas, [Rahm] Emanuel works blue. "Fuck" is one of the most versatile words in English, but he seems to have discovered new grammatical and linguistic uses for it. Washington is "Fucknutsville." A Republican congressman is a "knucklefuck." As with his liberal politics, he seems to have inherited his gift for invective from his mother, who is quoted as playfully calling him a "little shithead." The Emanuels -- who hail from the upper-middle-class suburb of Wilmette -- are an intense, competitive family. Emanuel's father and brother are surgeons, another brother is a Hollywood agent who inspired the Ari Gold character on "Entourage."
I'll trade "sleazy" and "arrogant" for a good solid thumpin' at the polls.
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