Some Stories of the New Chief of Staff

For those who disagreed with my assessment that the choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff represented a repudiation of the bipartisanship that Obama preached to the choir in Grant Park, here are two stories about Emanuel, one from yesterday and one from the day after Clinton was elected.

From yesterday:

"I'll tell you this," Emanuel shouted out to his staff. "The Republicans may have the 72-hour program. But they have not seen the 22-month program!

"Since my kids are gone, I can say it: They can go ---- themselves!"

And from the day after Clinton was elected:

And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."

I report, you decide.