Reply #5: there were a few voices saying what the Times is reporting all along (excerpts) [View All]

... a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts...

... It is a view propounded by lawmakers and early supporters of President Obama who are frustrated because they think the administration has gone for the perfect at the expense of the plausible... in the search for what has gone wrong, influential Democrats are -- in unusually frank terms -- blaming Obama and his closest campaign aides for not listening to Emanuel.

(Now Cenk and his crew will probably say Emanuel fed Jason Horowitz this story like they said about Dana Millbank :eyes: )