Rahm Emanuel: GOP's Motto Is "Ask What Your Government Can Do For Our Party"

Would be grand if Dems can make this motto stick


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Rahm Emanuel: GOP's Motto Is "Ask What Your Government Can Do For Our Party"
By Greg Sargent | bio

Here are some advance excerpts of a big speech Rahm Emanuel is set to deliver tomorrow morning at the Brookings Institution.

His aides are billing the speech as a broad and far-reaching indictment of the GOP and the Bush administration that seeks to find a common thread in all the GOP scandals from the Attorney Purge to the Katrina failure to the mendacity that brought us the Iraq war.

That common thread: On every conceivable policy front, the administration and the GOP have placed party before country, and government has become politicized to its core. Rather than casting the administration's manifold failings as simply the result of incompetence, Emanuel will argue that they're really driven by nothing more than all-pervasive partisanship -- the imperative of putting party before country, always, without fail.

"There is a common denominator," Emanuel will say. "Instead of promoting solutions to our nation’s broad challenges, the Bush Administration used all the levers of power to promote their party and its narrow interests...Nothing was free from political influence."

More excerpts from Emanuel's speech after the jump.