What Would Rahm Do?
Down in Memphis, Steve Cohen says he has the support of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. An Emanuel quote in the Washington Post seems to suggest that he is not shedding any tears about Sen Joe Lieberman’s possible defeat in Connecticut’s Democratic primary: “What’s playing out here is that being a rubber stamp for George Bush is politically dangerous to life-threatening.”
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