Reports The Telegraph
Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term.
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Wonder who said this?
"It might not be his fault, but the perception is there," said the consultant, who asked not to be named. "Every vote has been tough, from health care to energy to financial reform.
"Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm's job."
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
It is hard for me to say. I have no particular beef with Mr. Emanuel. I have to say, though, that I don't think I care for his particular brand of pragmatism.
I consider myself a "pragmatic progressive". But that just leads me to think: I know what I mean when I say pragmatic progressive, but the term, by it's very nature implies subjectivity and malleability. I don't know what this means for pragmatic progressives, but I do know that Emanuel does indeed seem too willing to compromise. If a more ideologically rigid administration comes of this move I say that is good. I only wish it would have happened sooner.
What do you think?