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Rahm Goes Back To Chicago..

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Rahm Emanuel is being  reported as stepping down as White House Chief of Staff tomorrow.  Two close associates said that Emmanuel would be making an announcement over the weekend that he would be making a bid for Mayor of Chicago, now that Mayor Richard Daley will not be seeking reelection.

A piece at Slate sums up the reactions from the establishment and the “professional left.” To the former and to the media, Emanuel was a “fixer” who made things work. To such outlets as Daily Kos he was a Rasputin who sabotaged the progressive agenda.

But with no Rahm around, it’s not clear whom the left will have to blame for the failures of this administration.

Tom Woods On Pro-War “Progressives”

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The always thoughtful Tom Woods unmasks so-called “progressives”:

“Just weeks ago, Think Progress, after a one-sentence summary of my career that (as usual) left out the past 16 years, actually quoted Max Boot against me, as if Boot’s opposition to my work was sufficient to bury me forever. So instead of an antiwar libertarian, these progressives prefer neocon Max Boot, who according to Juan Cole “never saw a war he didn’t love, never saw a conquest he didn’t find exhilarating, never saw an occupied land he didn’t think could be handled.”  They approvingly quoted Boot’s dumb-guy propaganda line that “Woods’ sympathy extends not only to slave-owning rebels but also to German militarists” (because, like 99 percent of people who have studied the matter, I think Woodrow Wilson’s conduct during the early years of World War I was based on a double standard between Britain and Germany).  This is the same sense in which Ron Paul “sympathizes” with al-Qaeda because he doesn’t buy U.S. war propaganda. (I did reply to Boot, by the way.)

And these are the progressives”

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