Imagine You take Rahm Emanuel and divided by two. One of the new political animal Rahms is pure war consigliere fundraiser relentless, maniac that jams steak knives into the while calling his rival names. You take the man and put him in charge of the campaign.
What’s the first thing you’ll do two Rahms? Well, given their personality, and they are a different focus, they will fight.
Monday’s Chief of staff shake-up led the Obama administration is close enough to two-Rahms scenario. Jim Messina, who served as Deputy Chief of staff Rahm’s the White House, run a campaign. Messina is a political animal. He is a fixer.
And as of yesterday, Jack Lew, a mild-mannered budget wonk, walk the White House. I will include a funny story about Lew but there is, to my knowledge, there’s no funny story about Lew in the public record. This may be a funny thing happened once involving Lew personally, but if so, the knowledge has been long gone. He has a Republic.