Liberals Target Rahm Emanuel in New TV Ad
EmailABC News' David Chalian Reports: In addition to targeting key moderate and liberal Democrats, liberal activists now have White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in their sights. The new anti-Emanuel campaign comes on the heels of reports yesterday that the White House Chief of Staff was urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-D Conn., in order to move the health care reform legislation forward in the Senate. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer called those reports inaccurate, but other sources tell ABC News that the White House has indeed urged Sen. Reid and other Senate Democrats to give in to Sen. Lieberman on both the Medicare buy-in proposal and the public option. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal grassroots group keeping up the fight for the public option in health care reform, is launching a 60 second TV ad to air in Chicago featuring one of Mr. Emanuel's former constituents from his days when he represented the north side of Chicago in Congress before joining the Obama administration. "A lot of us back home hope Rahm Emanuel is fighting for people like us as White House Chief of Staff. But if he sides with the insurance companies and undermines the public option, well, he won't have many fans in Chicago,” says the constituent Joseph Breitenbucher in the ad. He also tells his tale of an insurance company trying to avoid paying for his spinal surgery. The ad campaign is clearly more targeted at receiving media attention than at persuading voters, but an eventual return to public office has never been ruled out by Emanuel. "The Barack Obama of 2008 would be ashamed of the small-thinking, ready-to-cave Rahm Emanuel of 2009,” said PCCC co-founder Adam Green. "If Rahm Emanuel ever plans to run for Congress, he deserves fair warning that his actions these next couple weeks will absolutely be at the forefront of any campaign," he added.
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They’re attacking Rahm? The Chief of Staff? Um, OK. That’s… an interesting approach.
Posted by: jhw539 | December 15, 2009, 11:43 am 11:43 am
I promise you that TV ads are the least of Rahm Emanuel’s concerns right now.
Posted by: Matt | December 15, 2009, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
PCCC – Be watching for a dead fish in your mail. The “never happy” libs are now attacking their own. I am sure this wasn’t in the “weekly talk topics” issued from the WH. STAY ON TOPIC! Everything is STILL BUSH’S FAULT! LOL!
Posted by: wheresmymoney | December 15, 2009, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm
note to liberals,…get a job and pay for health care like hard working people do. any job also: as your college degrees arent worth squat any more. wharton mba s are struggling to find any job.my brother na dsister have been unemployed for a year as they are unwilling to work for 20% less pay than they were making.
Posted by: catman | December 15, 2009, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
Note to liberals…..there are no handouts on silver platters.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 15, 2009, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
PLEASE tell me Democrats are not going to cannibalize the party, as Republicans did in 2008.. PLEASE
Posted by: Jeanne021556 | December 15, 2009, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
“A lot of us back home hope Rahm Emanuel is fighting for people like us as White House Chief of Staff. But if he sides with the insurance companies and undermines the public option, well, he won’t have many fans in Chicago,” says the constituent Joseph Breitenbucher in the ad.”
I’m considerably more horrified that a handful of people in the White House and Senate, could in any way be more significant than the already meager, but sadly best representation U.S. citizens have in their government through the House of Representatives. The only government body allowed by the U.S. Constitution to draw up initial revenue legislation like the health care bill. At best the Senate could only hope to amend this legislation, and if Senate democrats were acting in the best interests of democracy, they would return the bill to the House un-amended, and allow it to go to vote that way in both houses of Congress.
I can’t even begin to comprehend the disgust of democratic law-making being hi-jacked by the White House at this stage. Although the presumptive arrogance of this administration and it’s actual respect for rule of law among other disturbing dissapointments is about as comforting as knowing progressives and others just wanting a competent rule of law administrator to restore Constitutional credibiity to the U.S. will have to wait 3 years and counting just to see this waste of an election go.
Posted by: truth+is+better+than+fiction | December 15, 2009, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
The Liberals are so desperate to pass a health care bill they will pass a bill that does nothing. Rahn Emanuel and the CEO of GM made a deal worth 16 Million dollars why is this not being reported?
Posted by: stormerF2 | December 15, 2009, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
The self-centered people who oppose health care reform are mostly “Know Nothings” od the 21st Century and/or slaves to the super wealthy “Health” Insurance” lobby. They’ll say or do anything for their slave masters.
Posted by: Herb Gray | December 15, 2009, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
funny
Democrats used to love Rahm ‘Freddie Mac’ Emmanuel.
Posted by: Joe White | December 15, 2009, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
More often than not, this is the purpose in which people use TV ads, instead of the justified goal of raising sales through promoting and advertising campaigns.
Posted by: TV Ads | December 16, 2009, 8:30 am 8:30 am