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White House Chief of Staff William Daley will quit his post

1Perry said:
President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. So of course there should be little surprise that Obama's latest chief of staff, announced today by the president himself, also has deep ties to the financial industry himself.

New Chief of Staff: Former Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Money Off Mortgage Defaults | The Weekly Standard
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The expresion "Foxes running the hen hutch" comes to mind. Dunno why. :shrug:
 
justabubba said:
wild ass speculation: rahm was too vested in things israeli
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No, Rahm has a famous temper and 'totalitarian' way of doing things. In other words, he's a psycho. In a sense that personality is good for Chief of Staff, but it likely just caused too much tension.
 
j-mac said:
hmmmm...Is this more sign that the Obama WH sees the writing on the wall?

j-mac
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Maybe it's just because I'm from Chicago (and so are all of these guys), but I don't consider this surprising nor do I consider Rahm's departure surprising. Obama took people from the Chicago political machine with him to the white house. He did it with Rahm and Daley. He did it with Arne Duncan and others. (In fact, his loyalty to one of most incompetent political machines in the country is my main problem with him).

Rahm and Daley were probably just favors returned. Rahm was probably put out eventually because he is a psycho. Daley probably got what he wanted and likely wants to spend time with his family since his sister-in-law just died and his brother is involved in a criminal case that might finally make him answer for something in his life.
 
haymarket said:
Emanuel and Daly had the same job but perhaps their reasons for leaving were very very different. In time, we will find out more. IO am less interested in the details of why daly left and in getting the ins and outs of the Emanul situation. When Obama hired him I was overjoyed and thought it was the absolute right man for the job. It sent a signal to the right that he had a pit bull in charge and he was not going to take any crap from anybody. And then Emanuel was not allowed to be himself and do his job.

I want to know why.
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Obama is a mediator, not a fighter (note how he mediates fights in Congress, rather than getting involved directly).

My guess is that Emanuel was a bluff (by Obama)... once Emanuel realized that, he probably didn't like it.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
No, Rahm has a famous temper and 'totalitarian' way of doing things. In other words, he's a psycho. In a sense that personality is good for Chief of Staff, but it likely just caused too much tension.
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what was it that caused Obama - someone who refused to use the control of the white house and the congress in order to engage in compromise with the republicans - to hire as his chief of staff an uncompromising bastard like rahm?
 
Karl said:
Obama is a mediator, not a fighter (note how he mediates fights in Congress, rather than getting involved directly).

My guess is that Emanuel was a bluff (by Obama)... once Emanuel realized that, he probably didn't like it.
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wish i had read your considered post before i asked my now answered question
 
haymarket said:
Emanuel and Daly had the same job but perhaps their reasons for leaving were very very different. In time, we will find out more. IO am less interested in the details of why daly left and in getting the ins and outs of the Emanul situation. When Obama hired him I was overjoyed and thought it was the absolute right man for the job. It sent a signal to the right that he had a pit bull in charge and he was not going to take any crap from anybody. And then Emanuel was not allowed to be himself and do his job.

I want to know why.
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Politico ran a story on it. Basically they say that Daley had been out of national politics too long and was a bit out of touch, and he didn't get along very well with Obama's inner circle. They were edging him out and he didn't want to put up with it.
 
justabubba said:
what was it that caused Obama - someone who refused to use the control of the white house and the congress in order to engage in compromise with the republicans - to hire as his chief of staff an uncompromising bastard like rahm?
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1. Compromising is not easy. Republicans have been pushing against Obama's compromises since day one so Rahm's pushy personality in dealing with that nonsense. It was also probably supposed to be good for dealing with Democrats and members of the administration who disagreed with Obama.

2. Obama took the Illinois/Chicago political machine with him to DC probably to return some favors. Rahm's job was probably, in part, one of those favors.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
Republicans have been pushing against Obama's compromises since day one...
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Not hardly...For there to actually BE a compromise, you have to have BOTH sides meeting in the middle, or at least close to it. The administration clearly sees compromise as, do it our way, or we'll trash you.

j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Not hardly...For there to actually BE a compromise, you have to have BOTH sides meeting in the middle, or at least close to it. The administration clearly sees compromise as, do it our way, or we'll trash you.

j-mac
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You're right. There hasn't been any compromise since there was a public option on the healthcare bill and Obama didn't extend Bush tax cuts...oh wait.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
You're right. There hasn't been any compromise since there was a public option on the healthcare bill and Obama didn't extend Bush tax cuts...oh wait.
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Wait is right. the health care bill was voted in the middle of the night, with a push of all demo's. And the tax cuts were yet another in political decisions that if he could have he would have raised them.

j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Wait is right. the health care bill was voted in the middle of the night, with a push of all demo's. And the tax cuts were yet another in political decisions that if he could have he would have raised them.

j-mac
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I can't believe you're seriously arguing that Obama hasn't compromised. Why do you think the main problem facing Obama for re-election is mobilization of his base?
 
ThePlayDrive said:
I can't believe you're seriously arguing that Obama hasn't compromised. Why do you think the main problem facing Obama for re-election is mobilization of his base?
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Because liberals have been taken over by the uber far left, that wouldn't be happy with anything short of Chavez himself declaring himself leader of America.

j-mac
 
ThePlayDrive said:
No, Rahm has a famous temper and 'totalitarian' way of doing things. In other words, he's a psycho. In a sense that personality is good for Chief of Staff, but it likely just caused too much tension.
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But that perception of him was why he was hired in the first place.
 
AdamT said:
Politico ran a story on it. Basically they say that Daley had been out of national politics too long and was a bit out of touch, and he didn't get along very well with Obama's inner circle. They were edging him out and he didn't want to put up with it.
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thanks for that information.
 
haymarket said:
But that perception of him was why he was hired in the first place.
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Which is why I said, "that personality is good for Chief of Staff". It is good in a sense, but it probably became too much. Sometimes things sound better than they turn out to be.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
Which is why I said, "that personality is good for Chief of Staff". It is good in a sense, but it probably became too much. Sometimes things sound better than they turn out to be.
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You bring up a very good point. Do you know of any instances during the tenure of Emanuel where his personality did get too abrasive and did produce conflict? Because I do not remember anything like that. I thought Rahm would be used as the pitbull to keep the GOP at bay but he was never allowed to assume that role. To this day I wonder why?

The whole Rahm thing seems to me as if a hockey team went out and hired a tough enforcer who likes to mix it up but then tells him to be a finesse player and keep out of the penalty box.
 
j-mac said:
Not hardly...For there to actually BE a compromise, you have to have BOTH sides meeting in the middle, or at least close to it. The administration clearly sees compromise as, do it our way, or we'll trash you.
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The Kool Aid Diaries :lamo
 
Daily is cutting his losses, because he knows that the position of, "Obama's chief of staff", will no longer exist, this time next year.
 
apdst said:
Daily is cutting his losses, because he knows that the position of, "Obama's chief of staff", will no longer exist, this time next year.
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I wonder if he can give us next weeks winning power ball numbers as well?
 
The goonish ways of Chicago politics don't get the same traction outside of mobville. The Dark-Age tactics of Emanuel and Daley don't fly.

Imagine, Chicago actually makes D.C. look like the land of kumbaya.

Apparently, you can't kill all the Republicans in D.C. like you can in Chi-Town.
 
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