Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...banner appears--red evil! Red scary!--reading, THINGS HAVE TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORSE. We see Vice President Dick Cheney baring his teeth as if to take a bite out of a baby. Then a blue banner emerges--blue good! Blue safe!--as DCCC chairman Rahm Emanuel talks to cops and a toddler smiles in a swing. The caption assures us, BUT AMERICA IS STRONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE...
...admits, "it's a tough place to be politically." Democrats, who overwhelmingly support expanded research, seem happy with the looming veto as a consolation prize; some were already running ads. "It's going to be a symbol of standing in the way of progress," says Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, whose job it is to get Democrats re-elected. "This is a game changer in a lot of districts." As for patients, present and future, who have a personal stake in the fight, the good news is that the fate of the bill may not mean as much as either side...
...wasn't the only one on Tuesday that the Dems had to spin. In a district north of San Francisco, Steve Filson, one of the candidates handpicked by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee looking to help retake the House, lost badly - the second candidate picked by DCCC head Rahm Emanuel who has lost in a primary this year. (The first: Ohio's Joe Sulzer...
...Rahm Emanuel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has been calling friends in recent weeks and saying things like "I'm worried. I think expectations are too high." Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, a Florida Democrat who is working closely with Emanuel on the election effort, said she tries to keep her enthusiasm to herself. "The hope, I jam it in a little compartment in my heart," she said. "I take it out every once in a while and then I jam it back in and I get back to work...
...Democrats are already campaigning for positions they would take if Democrats control Congress. James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is number three in the leadership as conference chairman, has started asking colleagues to support him in a campaign to be the whip in a Democrat congress, a job Emanuel would be a very strong contender for if Democrats won the House...